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.s1.560.2

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When they had gone away Rāma returned to the hermitage (III, 116), 10195.—§ 398 (Paruça-Rāma): III, 117: After having lamented for and cremated his father, Rāma vowed the slaughter of the entire kshattriya caste, killed Kārtavīrya's sons, etc.—§ 638d (Rāmop.): XII, 49: Meanwhile the virtuous kshattriya, the Haihaya king Arjuna Kārtavīrya, with 1,000 arms through the grace of Dattātreya, having subjugated the whole earth with its mountains and seven islands, became a powerful emperor, and gave away the earth to the brahmans in a horse-sacrifice. Solicited by Agni, he once gave alms to that deity, who sprung from the point of his shaft, i.e. Agni burnt villages, etc., and he burnt also the retreat of Āpava (=Vasiṣṭha), who cursed Arjuna, saying that Rāma should lop off his arms. Always devoted to peace, always regardful of brahmans, etc., Arjuna did not mind that curse. His sons, always haughty and cruel, seized and brought away the calf of Jamadagni's *homa*-cow, without the knowledge of Arjuna. Rāma lopped off the arms of Arjuna and brought back the calf;