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.s1.546

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Arghakāṇḍa (on the handing over of the gift of honour, a minor parvans of Mbhbr.). § 310 (Parvas.): I, 2, 318 (with the rājarṣis and the dispute. No one could perform the body without vows (*acratin*). Nārada sat there with feelings of awe, remembering the words he had heard of old in the mansion of Brahmán regarding the incarnation of the deities, and knowing that Kṛṣṇa was the incarnation of Nārāyaṇa and would himself destroy all these assembled kṣattriyas. Bhīṣma then proposed to Yudhiṣṭhira that arghas should be offered to the kings, and first to him who was the foremost. As Bhīṣma declared Kṛṣṇa to be foremost, he caused Sahadeva to present the first argha to Kṛṣṇa, which filled the Cedi king Ciçupāla with envy (II, 36). Ciçupāla gravely censures Bhīṣma, Yudhiṣṭhira, and Kṛṣṇa (saying that he was a servant and cowherd and no king, and speaking depreciatingly of his exploits), and accompanied by the kings left the assembly (II, 37). Yudhiṣṭhira ran after Ciçupāla and spoke sweetly to him in order to conciliate him; Bhīṣma maintained the fitness of giving Kṛṣṇa the first argha (II, 38). Sahadeva and Nārada declared it to be highly improper not to worship Kṛṣṇa. Sunītha (i.e. Ciçupāla) stirred the kings up in order to obstruct the completion of the sacrifice (II, 39).