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.s1.579.5

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Then he entered the hall of the Yādavas called Sudharmā (sudharmāṃ yādavāṃ sabhām), where he told the citizens and ministers that he would take away with him the remnants of the Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas, as the sea would soon engulf the city, etc. A. passed that night in the mansion of Kṛṣṇa. At dawn Vasudeva by yoga attained to the highest goal; his four wives ascended the funeral pyre. When A. had caused Vasudeva and his four wives to be burnt, he visited the place where the Vṛṣṇis had been slaughtered, and caused the last rites to be performed and Rāma and Kṛṣṇa to be burnt. On the seventh day he set out with the ladies and children, the Yādava troops and other inhabitants, with Kṛṣṇa’s 16,000 wives, and Vajra; they numbered many millions in all; then the ocean flooded Dvārakā; they proceeded in slow marches; at Pañcanada the Ābhiras (Mlecchas) conspired to rob the cavalcade. A. only with great difficulty succeeded in stringing his bow. His celestial weapons would not come to his mind; the women were snatched away by the robbers; A.’s shafts soon became exhausted; formerly they had been inexhaustible. A. became very distressed; he escorted the remnant of the cavalcade to Kurukṣetra; he established the son of Kṛtavarman in the city of Mārttikāvata with the remnant of the women of the Bhoja king; the remainder, with children and old men and women, at Indraprastha the Vajra for their ruler; the son of Yuyudhāna (with old men, etc.) on the hanks of the Sarasvatī, etc.; then A.