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.s1.562

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to come at the same time as Aṣvatthāman. Droṇa told the cook never to give Arjuna his food in the dark, but not to tell him that it was he (Droṇa) that had ordered this. One day a wind put the lamp out when Arjuna was taking his food; but his hand went up to his mouth from habit. His attention being thus called to the force of habit, Arjuna practised with his bow in the night, and Droṇa promised him that there should not be a bowman equal to him in the world. He taught him also to fight on horseback, etc., with the mace, etc.: 5217, 5218, 5224, 5225, 5230, 5232, 5233, 5238.—§ 204 (Ekalavya): I, 132, 5252 (Droṇa took from Ekalavya as his fee the thumb of his right hand in order that he might not surpass Arjuna).—§ 205e (cf. Droṇa): I, 132, 5278, 5274: Arjuna excelled everyone in every respect, and alone became an atiratha ("a charioteer capable of fighting at one time with 60,000 foes," FCR).—§ 206 (Droṇa): I, 132f, 5293, 5296. One day Droṇa caused an artificial bird to be placed on the top of a tree, and first repeatedly asked Yudhishṭhira to tell what he did see, while aiming at the bird. He answered that he saw the tree, Droṇa, his brothers, and the bird. Droṇa reproachfully told him to stand apart. Then Droṇa repeated the experiment with his other pupils, with the same result (ch. 132). At last Arjuna's turn came; he said first that he saw only the vulture, and then that he saw only his head, and, when Droṇa gave the order, he struck off its head with his shaft (I, 133).—§ 207 (do.): I, 133: Arjuna rescued the life of Droṇa by shooting with five arrows an alligator in the Gaṅgā that had seized his thigh. Droṇa gave him the weapon Brahmaśiras on the condition that he should not use it against a human foe, as it might burn the whole universe.—§ 208b (cf. Astradarśana): I, 135: Then Arjuna appeared, while Kuntī wept with joy, and Dhṛtarāṣṭra learned from Vidura who it was. By the Āgneya weapon Arjuna created fire, by the Vāruṇa water, by the Vāyavya air, by the Pārjanya clouds; by means of the Pārvata a mountain came into being (v. 5366, read with V. "abhavadgiriḥ" or with B. "aśrjadgiriḥ"), and by the Antardhāna weapon it again disappeared, etc.; he at one time shot five shafts together into the mouth of a moving iron boar, and discharged twenty-one arrows into the hollow of a cow's horn hung up in a rope and swaying to and fro (v. 5370, instead of "bale" read with B. and V. "cale").—§ 208 (Astradarśana): I, 137, 5440, 5442: At the show of arms Karṇa in vain challenged Arjuna.—§ 209 (Drupadaśana): I, 138, 5484, 5492, 5499, 5500, 5501. Arjuna helped Droṇa to subjugate Drupada, which favour Droṇa had asked as his fee.—§ 210c (cf. Sambhavaparvan): I, 139: Droṇa taught Arjuna Brahmaśiras (that he had learnt from Agniveśa, the disciple of Agastya), on the condition that he should not hurl it at any human being (cf. § 207), and obtained from him as his fee the promise that he would fight with him [in the great battle]. Then Arjuna went away to the Pāṇḍavas.—§ 211 (Sambhavap.): I, 139, 5537, 5538. The Pāṇḍavas in war slew Sauvíra, who had in the five years' sacrifice at the inroad of the Pāṇḍavas, the Sauvíra king, whom even Pāṇḍu had not been able to subdue by Arjuna; as was also the king of the Sindhus, who had always shown a disrespect to the Pāṇḍavas. Sauvíra Sumitra, called the king of the Sindhus (v. 5542); assisted by Bhīma, Arjuna in the battle subjugated all the kings of the earth, and the best of chariots; and in the