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.s1.566.7

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Indra had asked him as his fee to slay the Nivātakavacas, and had given him the car (conducted by Mātali) upon which he (Indra) had vanquished Bali, etc., and "this" diadem and ornaments of his own and the impenetrable mail, and he had fastened "this" durable (ajarām) string to the Gāṇḍīva, and the gods gave him the shell Devadatta by which Indra had conquered the worlds (cf. § 446).—§ 444 (do.): III, 169 f., 12173, 12181: Arjuna related his victory over the Nivātakavacas; Indra had formerly been told by Svayambhū that he himself would destroy them in another body; as the gods were unable to slay them, Indra had presented those weapons to Arjuna in order to have them killed. Then Arjuna and Mātali again went to the abode of the gods.—§ 445 (do.): III, 173: While returning, A. destroyed Hiraṇyapura, inhabited by Palomas and Kālakhañjas, who could not be slain even by the gods, etc.; therefore Brahmán had determined that Arjuna, a mortal, should kill them; he employed the Raudra weapon. Mātali took Arjuna to the abode of Indra, and in detail related Arjuna's achievement to Indra, and Indra praised him, and said that gods, etc., would not be able to stand him in fight, etc.—§ 446 (do.): III, 174, 12281, (12289): Indra said that in the battlefield Bhīshma, Droṇa, etc., would not be equal to one-sixteenth part of Arjuna. Then Indra gave him "this" golden garland, the shell Devadatta, etc. (see § 443). Then Indra told him to depart. A.