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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.s1.565

An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.565

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Then he conquered the region of the Gandharvas, and took as tribute from the Gandharva city horses spotted as partridges and named maṇḍūkas ('frogs'). At the entrance to Northern Harivarsha he was encountered by huge guardians (dvāra-pālaḥ), who told him that this city could not be conquered, that he who entered it was sure to perish, that nothing might be seen there by one with a human body, for this was the abode of the Northern Kurus, but that they would do anything else he would ask of them. At his request they gave him heavenly clothes, etc., as a tribute for Yudhishṭhira. Then he returned to Indraprastha, and gave all he had won to Yudhishṭhira (II, 28), 1048, 1051.—§ 286 (Rājasūyikap.): II, 33, 1221, 1234: Under Yudhishṭhira's rule the people were very happy, and great riches filled the treasury; then he resolved to celebrate the rājasūya; he engaged Indrasena and Viçoka and Puru, with Arjuna for his charioteer, to collect food, etc. Kṛshṇa himself had arrived there.—§ 290 (Çiçupālav.): II, 42, 1475: In the quarrel between Kṛshṇa, etc., and Çiçupāla on the occasion of the handing over of the gift of honour (Arghābaraṇap.), in which Çiçupāla was ultimately killed by Kṛshṇa, Çiçupāla also spoke with depreciation about Arjuna's, etc., slaying Jarāsandha.—[§ 292a (Rājasūyikap.): II, 45a, 1607 (Dhananjaya, i.e. Arjuna, followed Yajñasena, i.e. Drupada).]—§ 293 (Dyūtap.): II, 46, 1640: Terrible omens had appeared at the rājasūya, which Vyāsa explained as foreboding the destruction of the kshattriyas after thirteen years by Bhīma, A., etc.; A. prevailed upon Yudhishṭhira to give up his intention to die.—§ 294 (do.): II, 47 ff., 1670, 1755: Bhīma, Arjuna, etc., laughed at Duryodhana's mistakes in the palace; Çakuni caused him to invite the Pāṇḍavas to a match of dice.—§ 295 (do.): II, 52, 1890 (Kṛshṇa is the soul of Arjuna, and vice versa).—§ 299 (do.): II, 68, (2257): At the match of dice Yudhishṭhira lost his kingdom, his brothers, himself, and Draupadī, etc.; Bhīma wanted to burn his hands, but was appeased by Arjuna.—§ 301 (do.): II, 70, 2368, 2376: The admonitions of Arjuna, etc., retained Bhīma from killing the Dhārtarāshṭras. 71, 2383, 2388, 2399, (2400): Duryodhana said that if Bhīma, Arjuna, and the twins would declare that Yudhishṭhira was not their master, then Draupadī would be free; A. said that he was certainly their master before the play; terrible omens appeared; Draupadī was granted a boon, and chose the liberty of Yudhishṭhira and his brothers. 72, (2423): Bhīma threatened to slay all his foes instantly, but was restrained by Arjuna and Yudhishṭhira. 73, 2447: Dhṛtarāshṭra sent Yudhishṭhira with his brothers and Kṛshṇa upon their ears to Indraprastha; he said that A. is patient, etc.—§ 304 (Anudyūtap.): II, 77, (2543), (2546): Having been vanquished in the second match of dice, the Pāṇḍavas had to live thirteen years in the forest and a fourteenth among men without being recognized; when they were going away A. threatened that Arjuna would slay Karṇa, etc.—§ 306 (Āraṇyakap.): III, 4a, 2634, 2653, 2665: When going away, they took red sand-grains, thus alluding to the arrows used in the battle; terrible omens appeared; 4, 2675: In the fourteenth year hence the Kauravas will be destroyed by Bhīma and Arjuna.—§ 307 (do.): III, 10, 2828: Saying that neither Bhīma nor Arjuna, etc., nor, as, Vidura in vain exhorted Dhṛtarāshṭra, that the Pāṇḍavas all they had lost would regain, but Dhṛtarāshṭra, who has Pāṇḍavas to bring