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.s1.567.8

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Yudhishṭhira declared Sañjaya to be as dear to him as Dhanañjaya (i.e. Arjuna); Sañjaya, having returned to Hāstinapura, spoke to Dhṛtarāshṭra about Arjuna’s ascending to the very heavens, etc.—§ 561 (Yānasandhip.): V, 47-71: 48, 1810, 1815, 1816, 1831; 49, 1933, 1940, 1963; 51, 2031, 2037, 2084; 52, 2092; 53, 2109, 2111; 54, 2131, 2135; 55, 2182, 2184, 2195, 2202; 56, 2215, 2219; 57, 2246, 2247, 2292; 59, 2329, 2352, 2358; 60, 2366, 2378; 65, 2497; 66, 2499; 67, 2522; 68, 2523; 69, 2545: The next morning Sañjaya in the council hall related that Arjuna (! cf. § 556, V, 23-28) had said with Yudhishṭhira’s sanction that Sañjaya should threaten Duryodhana, etc., saying that the Pāṇḍavas only wished for war; Arjuna said (§ 561b, V, 48) that one morning when he had finished his water rites and prayers, a brahman said to him that he would have to fight with his foe, and that either Indra riding on his steed would walk before him, or Kṛṣṇa would protect him from behind riding on his car drawn by Sugrīva; and Arjuna had preferred Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa) as his ally to Indra. Arjuna also said that Duryodhana thought of imprisoning Kṛṣṇa and seeks to create a sudden disunion between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, and relates terrific omens; “I will hurl the Sthūṇākarṇa, Pāçupata, and Brāhma weapons, and all those that Çakra gave me.” Bhīshma said that Nara and Nārāyaṇa are Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa;