An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.458.4

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after having cut it into pieces (B. cooking), they caused Draupadī to sit near it; then the brahmans cooked its marrow; Yudhiṣṭhira and his brothers smelled the sin-destroying smoke of that marrow; the limbs (heart, tongue, breast, etc., Nil.) the sixteen ṛtvijs offered into the fire. Vyāsa and his disciples eulogised Yudhiṣṭhira, who gave 1,000 crores of golden niṣkas to the brahmans, and the whole earth as dakṣiṇā to Vyāsa; Vyāsa returned it to him, telling him to give the purchasing value instead; Yudhiṣṭhira said that the dakṣiṇā for the horse-sacrifice is the earth, and that he would enter the woods and tell them to divide it into four parts, one for each of the four principal priests (”caturhotrapramāṇataḥ; PCR. ”according to what is done in the caturhotra sacrifice”); his brothers and Draupadī approved of his words, as did also a voice in the sky; Vyāsa and Kṛṣṇa prevailed upon him to retain the earth and give away millions of golden coins, trebling the dakṣiṇā for the horse-sacrifice; no other king would be able to accomplish what Yudhiṣṭhira thus did after the manner of Marutta; Vyāsa gave the wealth (the price of the earth) to the officiating priests, in four parts, and they distributed it among the brahmans, who were also permitted to take the ornaments of gold, etc.; the remaining wealth was allotted to kṣattriyas, vaiśyas, śūdras, and Mlecchas. Vyāsa gave away his own share to Kuntī, who devoted it to various meritorious acts.