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.s2.133.1

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“moreover, I have come here in order that unrighteous, foolish, and inimical persons shall not afterwards be free to say that Kṛṣṇa made no attempt to restrain them from slaughtering one another, though he was competent to do so.” Then he laid himself down for sleep (V, 93). In the morning Duryodhana and Ṣakuni came and invited him to go to the council where Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Bhīṣma, etc., were present; he rode thither in his chariot with Dāruka, putting on his gem Kaustubha, and being protected by the Vṛṣṇis, and he was followed by Vidura in his own chariot, and by Duryodhana and Ṣakuni in one chariot, and by Satyaki and Kṛtavarman and the other chariot-warriors of the Vṛṣṇi race in chariots and on steeds and elephants (description). Then he entered the court with Vidura and Satyaki; before him sat Karṇa and Duryodhana, behind him the Vṛṣṇis with Kṛtavarman. Bhīṣma, Droṇa, etc., with Dhṛtarāṣṭra rose up in his honour, etc. He beheld the Ṛṣis staying in the skies with Nārada at their head, and caused Bhīṣma to offer them seats. Duḥśāsana gave a seat to Satyaki, and Vivimṣati one to Kṛtavarman (V, 94). Kṛṣṇa spoke of the just complaints and claims of the Pāṇḍavas, and said that with them as his allies Dhṛtarāṣṭra would become invincible, having Bhīṣma, etc. (v). “Let not the peoples of the earth be exterminated!