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.s1.47.2

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"thou hast been instructed in all duties by Bhīshma, Kṛshṇa, and Vidura"; 100 horse-sacrifices and righteous rule are productive of equal merit (XV, 7). Yudhishṭhira gratefully accepted his instructions, as Bhīshma, etc. (ι), no longer were there to instruct him. Dhṛtarāshṭra wishes to depart soon, and Gāndhārī reminded him that he has got the permission of Vyāsa, and asks him when he would go to the forest with the permission of Yudhishṭhira; he wished first to make gifts for the advancement in the other world of his dead sons and other kinsmen (who were now pretas), and assembled all the subjects, while Yudhishṭhira brought all the articles necessary; Dhṛtarāshṭra, in a touching address, took leave of that large concourse of men of all the four castes (κ) (XV, 8), recapitulating the history of the realm from Ҫāntanu downwards (λ) (XV, 9). The citizens were exceedingly agitated upon hearing Dhṛtarāshṭra's address; they charged the learned brahman Ҫāmba (B. Sāmba) with answering him (μ): "King Duryodhana never did us any wrong; we were well protected and ruled by him; we have also enjoyed great happiness for thousands of years under Yudhishṭhira, who follows the conduct of the R.-ṛ. of old (Kuru, Samvaraṇa, Bharata, etc.); the carnage on the field of Kurukshetra was not brought about by Duryodhana, Karṇa, and Ҫakuni, nor by Dhṛtarāshṭra, but by Destiny, which in 18 days caused 18 akshauhiṇīs to be destroyed by Bhīshma, etc. (ν);