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.s1.575.9

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The Kauravas urged Karṇa to slay *A.* Yudhiṣṭhira appeared in order to witness the encounter. *A.*'s bowstring burst; Karṇa pierced *A.* (aδ). Karṇa employed five snakes as arrows; they were cut off by *A.*, who slew 2,000 Kurus. The Kurus fled, leaving Karṇa to fight alone with *A.* (VIII, 89). The snake Açvasena entered into Karṇa's quiver in the form of an arrow. Karṇa and *A.* were fanned and sprinkled with fragrant sandal-water by many Aps., staying in the welkin, and Çakra and Sūrya gently brushed their faces with their hands. Karṇa aimed that arrow which he had long kept for *A.*'s destruction. Omens appeared; Karṇa did not know that Açvasena had entered his arrow. Kṛṣṇa with his feet pressed *A.*'s car about a cubit into the earth and the snake-arrow only broke his diadem (made by Svayambhū for Indra > *A.*); incapable of being crushed by Rudra, etc. (ai). Karṇa would not shoot the same weapon again. Açvasena then of his own accord came towards *A.* in the shape of an arrow; Kṛṣṇa informed *A.*; *A.* cut off the snake, and Kṛṣṇa raised the chariot from the earth. Once, when Karṇa was stupefied, *A.* did not wish to slay him, but he was taught by Kṛṣṇa never to spare an enemy. Karṇa invoked the Brāhma weapon and *A.* the Aindra weapon, which was neutralized by Karṇa, urged by Kṛṣṇa to shoot "high weapons," *A.* shot the Brāhma weapon. Karṇa cut off eleven bowstrings of *A.*'s another, not knowing that *A.* had 100 strings;