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.s2.1252

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Çraddhaparvan (°va), "the section relating to the Çraddha," the 87th of the minor parvans of Mhbhr. § 10 (Parvas.): I, 2, 349.—§ 620: *Kṛṣṇa censured Gāndhārī, saying that this vast carnage had taken place by her fault, through her son Duryodhana; and told her not to grieve ("the cow brings forth offspring to bear burthens . . . the Çudrā woman to increase the number of servitors . . . a princess, like thee, brings forth sons to be slaughtered"). Gāndhārī remained silent. Requested by Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Yudhishṭhira said that one billion 660,020,000 men had fallen; and 24,165 had escaped; tho fallen had all attained to regions like those of Indra (specifying those who had attained to G., Gh., Brahmaloka, and Uttarakurus). Yudhishṭhira said that in the forest he had obtained the gift of spiritual vision from D.-ṛ. Lomaça. Urged by Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Yudhishṭhira ordered Sudharman, etc. (a), to cause the funeral rites of the slain (β) to be duly performed; they burned them upon funeral pyres; the Pitṛmedha-rites were performed for some of the illustrious dead; by the noise of sāmans, res, and lamentations all creatures became stupefied that night. Then Yudhishṭhira and Dhṛtarāṣṭra proceeded towards the Gaṅgā (XI, 26). The Kuru ladies, etc., performed the wator-rites for their fellow-kinsmen at the Gaṅgā. Kuntī, in a paroxysm of grief, disclosed the truth about Karṇa's birth (γ) to her sons. The Pāṇḍavas grieved, and Yudhishṭhira lamented, hearing that Karṇa was his elder brother (δ). Yudhishṭhira caused Karṇa's wives, etc., to be brought before him, and with them performed the water-rite in honour of Karṇa (XI, 27).*