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.s1.581.6

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in Bhṛgutuṅga he bestowed many thousands of kine, etc., on brāhmans and visited many tīrthas (especially all those in Aṅga, Vaṅga, and Kaliṅga). At the gate of the kingdom of Kaliṅga the brāhmans desisted from following him further; he crossed Kaliṅga, beheld the Mahendra mountain adorned with the ascetics, and went to Maṇipūra, proceeding slowly along the seashore. There he married Citrāṅgadā, the daughter of king Citravāhana (b), and dwelt there for three years. When Citrāṅgadā had given birth to a son, Arjuna set out on his wanderings again (I, 215).—§ 250: Then Arjuna went to the tīrthas at the southern ocean. There five tīrthas were shunned on account of five crocodiles that seized the devotees: Agastyatīrtha, Saubhadra, Pauloma, Kāraṇdhama (giving the results of a horse-sacrifice), and Bhāradvāja's tīrtha. Arjuna plunged into the Saubhadra (so called after a maharshi), and was seized by a crocodile, which he dragged to the shore. It then became the apsaras Vargā, the friend of Dhanapati (Kubera). When she with her four companions (Saurabheyī, Samīcī, Vudvudā, and Latā), going to the abode of Kubera, had in vain tempted an ascetic brāhman, that brāhman had cursed them, saying that they should become crocodiles for 100 years (I, 216). Vargā said: "As we asked the rshi to grant us pardon, he said: '100 and 100,000 are all indicative of eternity; but the words 100 as employed by me is to be understood as a limited period;