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.s1.567.7

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The nuptial festival was held at Upaplavya, where a great many kings came with akshauhiṇīs of troops.—§ 554 (Sainyodyogap.): V, 1, 5; 7, 140, (167): After the nuptials the assembled kings took counsel of each other about the preparations of war; after Kṛṣṇa had set out for Dvārakā, Arjuna and Duryodhana came thither while Kṛṣṇa was asleep; Arjuna chose Kṛṣṇa himself, who was not to fight, and Kṛṣṇa promised to become Arjuna’s charioteer; Arjuna came back to Yudhishṭhira with Kṛṣṇa and the foremost Dāçārhas.—§ 555 (do.): V, 8, 199, 214, 215; 18, 561, 567: Çalya came with an army to the Pāṇḍavas, but was enlisted in the cause of Duryodhana; he, however, promised Yudhishṭhira to dispirit Karṇa as his charioteer, and related the misery endured by Indra and his queen.—§ 556 (Sañjayayānap.): V, 20-32: 22, 658, 668, 706, 711; 26, 758, 759; 27, 785; 29, 861; 30, 868: Drupada’s purohita was sent as a messenger to Dhṛtarāshṭra; he said, “Nobody can fight Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa”; Dhṛtarāshṭra sent Drupada’s purohita back to the Pāṇḍavas. Praising Arjuna, etc. (22a, etc.), Dhṛtarāshṭra sent Sañjaya to Upaplavya, where he saluted Dhanañjaya (23γ); Yudhishṭhira said that by a single effort of his hand (23c) A. could shoot sixty-one whetted and keen-edged shafts, furnished with excellent feathers, etc.; Yudhishṭhira demanded Indraprastha, compared Arjuna, etc., with a tree of righteousness, whose trunk was Arjuna, etc.; Sañjaya then bade farewell to A., etc. (30ν);