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.s1.516

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[Āraṇeyaparvan ("the section relating to the wood for producing fire by friction," the 51st of the minor parvans of Mhbhr. = ch. III, 311-315). § 548: Asked by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related what the Pāṇḍavas did after having rescued Kṛshṇa (from Jayadratha). The Pāṇḍavas left Kāmyaka and returned to Draitavana with Kṛshṇa. Once a deer carried off a brahman's araṇi and mantha, was pursued by the Pāṇḍavas, and suddenly became invisible. Bhīma repented that he had not slain the prātikāmin, Arjuna that he had not slain Karṇa, and Sahadeva that he had not slain Çakuni. Nakula, Sahadeva, Arjuna, and Bhīma were successively sent to fetch water, but caused to drop down dead by a Yaksha. At last Yudhishṭhira himself went, answered thirty-four questions put by the Yaksha, chose that Nakula should be revived, rescued all his brothers, learnt that the Yaksha was his father Dharma (c), was granted the boon that the brahman would recover his araṇi and mantha, that the Pāṇḍavas would manage to live the thirteenth year unrecognized in Virāṭa's kingdom, and that Yudhishṭhira (who was born of Dharma, as Vidura of a portion of Dharma) should overcome covetousness, etc. The Pāṇḍavas asked permission of the brahmans to live the thirteenth year in concealment from the Dhārtarāshṭras, Duryodhana, etc., and Karṇa and Saubala. Dhaumya, etc., consoled Yudhishṭhira: "Even the gods (Indra, d; Vishnu, e; Agni, f; Aurva, g; Vivasvat, h) have wandered in disguise for the purpose of overcoming foes." The brahmana (yatis, munis) went back to their homes, and the Pāṇḍavas and Dhaumya set out with Kṛshṇa, and the next day proceeded for a kroça, and then sat down in order to take counsel of each other.