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.s2.1092

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Ҫiçupālavadhaparvan (“of the killing of Ҫiçupāla,” the 27th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr., cf. Ҫiçupālavadha). § 290 : As Yudhishṭhira was afraid that his sacrifice might be obstructed, Bhīshma consoled him, saying that Kṛshṇa was invincible (II, 40). Ҫiçupāla again censured Bhīshma and Kṛshṇa, and compared Bhīshma to the old swan, who always preached of virtue, so that the other birds gave him food and kept their eggs with him; but the old swan used to eat up their eggs, till he was found out and slain (II, 41). Ҫiçupāla censured Kṛshṇa’s behaviour towards Jarāsandha; Bhīma rushed up in anger, but was restrained by Bhīshma, while Ҫiçupāla was boasting (II, 42). Bhīshma said: Ҫiçupāla was born with three eyes and four hands, and brayed like an ass; his parents resolved to abandon him, but were prevented by an incorporeal voice who foreboded that that man in whose lap the child would be sitting, when its superfluous arms would fall down and the third eye on its forehead disappear, should be its slayer. Though the child was placed upon the laps of 1,000 kings, this came not to pass until Rāma and Kṛshṇa went to the capital of the Cedis to see their father’s sister (the mother of Ҫiçupāla), when the boy was placed on the lap of Kṛshṇa; then the arms fell down and the eye disappeared. Kṛshṇa granted to Ҫiçupāla’s mother the boon that he would pardon 100 offences of Ҫiçupāla’s (II, 43). Bhīshma declared that Kṛshṇa himself had wanted to provoke the boast of Ҫiçupāla. Ҫiçupāla reproached Bhīshma because he did not rather praise the other kings (a), such as the Bālhika king Darada (b), or Karṇa (c), etc.; he compared Bhīshma to the bird Bhūliṅga (d). Bhīshma expressed his contempt for such talk. The king became angry and proposed to kill Bhīshma, who relied upon Kṛshṇa (II, 44).—§ 291 : Ҫiçupāla challenged Kṛshṇa, being desirous to slay him with all the Pāṇḍavas. Kṛshṇa related (a) how Ҫiçupāla, hearing that the Sātvatas had gone to Prāgjyotisha, came and burnt Dvārakā; (b) that when king Bhoja was sporting on the Raivataka hill, he fell upon his attendants and slew many of them and led many away in