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.s1.47.1

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Açleṣhāḥ (plur.) = No. 43: XIII, 110, 5392 (Anuçaṣanik.) (description of a *cāndra vrata* or religious performance with reference to the moon in the mouth Mārgaçirṣha, when the moon is in conjunction with the asterism Mūla; the explanation of Nīlakaṇṭha runs thus:—Here is described a *cāndra vrata* to obtain a desired object; on the 1st day of the bright half of Mārgaçirṣha, when there is conjunction (of the moon) with the nakṣhatra Mūla, one should begin this cāndra, it consists in locating the nakṣhatras in the moon, Mūla in his feet, etc., i.e., one should together with its deity as being the like manner Rohiṇī, etc., with the of as being his legs, etc.; every case-endings is a Vedic Bhādrapadā represent performed as follow wish of a lu having taken a desired to be on Yudhishṭhira to permit Dhṛtarāshṭra to follow the path of all the ancient R.-ṛ.; "Gāndhārī bears her grief with fortitude." Yudhishṭhira yielded to Vyāsa's intercession; Vyāsa summed up the reasons for Dhṛtarāshṭra's retirement (ζ), and then proceeded to the woods. Yudhishṭhira then said that he would conform to the advice of Vyāsa, etc. (η) (XV, 4); Dhṛtarāshṭra, Gāndhārī, etc. (η), entering the palace of Dhṛtarāshṭra, ate a little. Then Dhṛtarāshṭra gave Yudhishṭhira advice about how the latter should rule his kingdom (θ) (XV, 5). Continuation (XV, 6). Continuation; agreeably to the science known to Uçanas, [arrays called] Ҫakaṭa, Padma, and Vajra should be formed;