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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.s1.571.2

An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.571.2

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78, 2774; 79, 2775, 2787, 2790, 2791, 2795, 2799, 2801, 2803, 2808; 80, 2842, 2868, 2872, (2874), 2885; 81, 2889, 2895, 2905, 2909: In the evening Arjuna, after having slain large numbers of Saṃcaptakas, proceeded towards his tent and told Kṛṣṇa that his heart was afflicted; he saw indications of disaster; Abhimanyu did not come out with smiles to receive him, etc. He remembered that Droṇa had this day formed the circular array, which none save Abhimanyu could break; but he had not taught him how to come out of it after having pierced it; he had heard the leonine shouts of the Dhārtarāṣṭras, and Kṛṣṇa had heard Yuyutsu censuring them for having slain a child instead of Arjuna, and then Yuyutsu had cast up his weapons afflicted with rage and grief. Kṛṣṇa consoled Arjuna, talking about the kṣattriya duties and heaven. None save Kṛṣṇa and Yudhiṣṭhira (who were always acceptable to him) could address Arjuna. Yudhiṣṭhira addressed him and told (VII, 72) him the particulars of Abhimanyu's heroism and fall. Arjuna vowed to slay Jayadratha before the sun set the following day (his oath); even as to As., D., men, birds, snakes, P., wanderers of the night, B.-r., and D.-r., etc., he said that they would not succeed in protecting him, even if he entered Rasātala, or ascended the firmament, or repaired to the city of the gods (Devapuram) or the city of Diti (Diteḥ puram); if the sun set before he had slain him, he would himself enter the fire.