[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.48 # 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.s1.48 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.48 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.48) penances, subsisting on air alone, and was now seen at a distance with matted locks, and gravel in his mouth, and exceedingly emaciated, naked, and besmeared with filth and dust; Vidura fled, pursued by Yudhiṣṭhira; at last he stood motionless in yoga, and entered the body of Yudhiṣṭhira, who felt that he had become stronger than before and had acquired many additional virtues and accomplishments, and recollected his own state before his birth among men; he had heard of yoga-practice from Vyāsa. He desired to cremate the lifeless body of Vidura, but was prevented by an invisible voice which said, that in Vidura (who was Dharma) was Yudhiṣṭhira's body also, and that Vidura would attain to the regions (lokaḥ) called Santānikāḥ. Yudhiṣṭhira came and informed Dhṛtarāṣṭra; all became filled with wonder. They passed that night under a tree (XV, 26), conversing on morality and wealth. The next morning they surveyed the retreat (description) and the other retreats in the forest. Yudhiṣṭhira made presents to the ascetics (specification); then he returned to Dhṛtarāṣṭra, etc. (ε); many M.-r. (Çaṭayūpa, etc.) who dwelt in Kurukṣetra came there, as also Vyāsa (XV, 27), who enquired after Dhṛtarāṣṭra's, etc. (ε), welfare, and told them who Vidura was, mentioning the curse of Dharma by Māṇḍavya (with an expenditure of his penances); he was superior to Bṛhaspati and Çukra; and how Vyāsa had procreated him upon the soil of Vicitravīrya; he was Dharma in consequence of his practices of dhāraṇā and dhyāna; from Dharma also Yudhiṣṭhira took his birth. Vyāsa says that he has come to show a wonderful effect of his own penances: "what dost thou wish to see, or ask, or hear?" (XV, 28). - [Previous: c5.s1.47.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.47.8) - [Next: c5.s1.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.49) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.48) · Pramāṇa