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.s1.567.9

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Arjuna with an arrow severed in battle the head of the Asura Jambha, etc., and Bhīshma rebuked Karṇa, who had seen his brother in the city of Virāṭa slain by Arjuna; Sañjaya mentioned Arjuna’s burning of the Khāṇḍava forest. Dhṛtarāshṭra was most afraid of Bhīma (who in height is higher than Arjuna by the span of the thumb); yet he was also afraid of Arjuna; “33 years have passed away since the burning of the Khāṇḍava forest; we have never heard of his being defeated anywhere”; Duryodhana alluded to the resolution of the Saṃçaptakas to slay Arjuna.—§ 561h (Yānas.): V, 56: Bhaumana (i.e. Viçvakarman, Nil.) and Çakra had always created wonderful forms, [he who is] Tvashtṛ, [and] Dhātṛ (i.e. Prajāpati, Nil.); for on this (i.e. Arjuna’s) flagstaff they (i.e. Tvashtṛ, Çakra, and Dhātṛ, Nil.) have made forms by divine illusion (devamāyayā); and at Bhīmasena’s request Hanumat will also place his own image on it. The banner in all directions both perpendicularly and laterally covered one yojana, and even if trees stood in its way its course could not be impeded; it was ever varying like Çakra’s bow (i.e. the rainbow). And to that chariot were yoked 100 white celestial steeds with the speed of the winds, given by Citraratha; neither on earth, nor in the sky, nor in heaven, their course could be impeded; a boon had been granted that their number would always remain full, however often they might be slain. —Arjuna had got Karṇa, Jayadratha, etc., assigned as his share in the combat.