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.s1.563.5

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Kṛṣṇa also obtained five sons (Crutakarman by Arjuna), who, after having studied the Vedas, from Arjuna acquired knowledge of all weapons celestial and human.—§§ 254-260 (Khāṇḍavadah.): I, 222-234: 224, 8161, 8167; 225, 8201, (8203); 227, 8238, 8245, 8247, 8275, 8278, 8282; 228, 8298, 8301, 8308, 8309, 8310, 8312, 8317, 8322, 8326; 234, 8466, 8476, 8478: Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna assisted Agni in burning the Khāṇḍava forest; Agni caused Varuṇa to give Arjuna the Gāṇḍīva bow, two inexhaustible quivers, and a car yoked with horses; then Agni gave Kṛṣṇa the discus Sudarśana; Varuṇa gave Kṛṣṇa the mace Kaumodakī; Indra in vain poured down showers of rain in order to prevent the burning. An incorporeal voice said that Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, being really the old rṣis and gods Nara and Nārāyaṇa, were invincible. Indra appeared and promised to give Arjuna all his weapons (both the Āgneya and the Vāyavya), when Mahādeva had been pleased by him; he granted Kṛṣṇa that his friendship with Arjuna should be eternal. The car (I, 8183 ff.) which Varuṇa gave to Arjuna was furnished with celestial weapons, etc., and incapable of being vanquished by gods or Asuras; its banner bore a large monkey; the car was drawn by horses white as silver, born in the region of the Gandharvas (Gandharvaik), and harnessed with gold, and in speed resembling the wind or the mind; its splendour was great, and the sound of its wheels was tremendous; it had been created by the