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.s1.469.4

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Notwithstanding the warnings of the Cāṇḍāla, Viçvāmitra took away that haunch of dog's meat into the woods and wished to eat it with his wife, having gratified the gods and the Pitrs; igniting a fire according to the Brahma rites and cooking a caru according to the Aindrāgneya rites, dividing the caru into due portions, he invoked the gods, including Indra. Meanwhile Indra began to pour rain copiously. Viçvāmitra, having completed the rites, himself ate that meat. Afterwards he destroyed all his sins by his penances and acquired the most wonderful success (XII, 141).—§ 650: Yudhishṭhira was distressed at the possibility of such acts of impiety being mentioned as a duty. Bhīshma said that kings should gather wisdom from various sources, and not from the Vedas alone. Those who blame the injunctions of the scriptures, etc., are hucksters in learning and Rākshasas among men; it has been heard by us that the texts of morality cannot be understood solely by discussion or by one's own intellect; Indra has said that this is the opinion of Bṛhaspati; . . . in days of old Uçanas told the Daiteyas this truth, that scriptures are no scriptures if they cannot stand the test of reason; . . . the sin of killing a person is equal to the sin of not killing one that deserves to be killed. Indra has said that in times of distress the great duty of a king is chastising the wicked and protecting the good (XII, 142).—§ 651: Yudhishṭhira enquired after the merits of protecting suppliants.