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.s1.570.5

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the Saṃcaptakas (14,000, including 10,000 Gopālaḥ or Nārāyaṇāḥ) challenged Arjuna, and he encountered them, discharged the Brāhma weapon, defeated and slew them, and then turned against Bhagadatta; but as Suçarman with his brothers followed him from behind, he again attacked Suçarman, and then again Bhagadatta; Bhagadatta, at last, consecrated his hook with mantras so as to become the Vaiṣṇava weapon; Kṛṣṇa received it on his breast, and it became a garland. A. taxed Kṛṣṇa for fighting himself, Kṛṣṇa related the origin of the Vaiṣṇavāstra (c); "the great Asura has been divested of that supreme weapon; now slay that enemy of the gods, just as I formerly slew Naraka for the good of the worlds"; slew Bhagadatta and the elephant. Then A. fought Vṛṣa and Acala. Dhṛtarāṣṭra's son Vṛṣasena and Karṇa employed magics in order to slay A., producing clubs, etc., and asses, and other weapons; then darkness, which his A. dispelled with the Jyotiṣa weapon, the water, which were dried up, and the fire, which he quenched. A. slaughtered