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.s2.50.1

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[Baladevatīrthayātrā] (“Baladeva’s visit to the sacred places on the Sarasvatī”; cf. Sārasvatam parva). § 615 (Gadā-y.-p.): Vaiçampāyana said: Baladeva first proceeded to Prabhāsa, where Udurāj (i.e. Soma), who had been affected with phthisis (yakṣhman), became freed from his curse, whence its name. Asked by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related Prabhāsotpattikathana (q.v.). Thence Bala-Rāma proceeded to Camasodbheda, where he passed one night and gave away costly gifts. Thence he proceeded to Udapāna (b) (IX, 35-36), and thence to Vinaçana (IX, 36), called so by the R. because the Sarasvatī has there become invisible from contempt of Çūdras and Ābhiras. Thence to Subhūmika (c), Gandharvaṇām tīrtha (d), Gargasrotas (e); thence (“smeared in white sandal-paste and attired in blue robes”) to Çankhatīrtha (f); thence to the Dvaita lake; then, along the southern bank of the Sarasvatī, to Nāgadhanvan (g). Baladeva then set out with his face towards the East, and one after another reached hundreds and thousands of tīrthas that occurred at every step. Bathing in all those tīrthas, and observing fasts, etc., as directed by R., and giving away wealth in profusion, etc., he (always smeared with white sandal-paste) set out for that spot where the Sarasvatī turns in an eastward direction in order to behold the R. in the forest of Naimiṣha (h), and he became filled with wonder.