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.s2.50.2

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“There, at Kurukṣhetra, O foremost of one of Kuru’s race, do thou perform great sacrifices and rites.” Thence Bala-Rāma went to the tīrtha Saptasārasvata (description), resorted to by Vāneyas and other ascetics, where the great ascetic crowned with success (siddhaḥ) performed his penances (IX, 37). Requested by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related the history of Saptasārasvata (i) and Maṅkaṇaka (j) (IX, 38). Having passed one night there, Bala-Rāma went to Auçanasa tīrtha (“the tīrtha of Uçanas”) Kapālamocana; the great muni Mahodara, whose thigh had been seized by the head of a lū. slain by Rāma [Dāçarathi], was liberated. There Kāvya (i.e. Çukra, Uçanas) had performed tapas, and the whole science of politics and morals (nīti) was revealed to him, while meditating on the war of Dai. and Dā. Requested by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related the story of Mahodara (k). Thence Bala-Rāma went to the abode of Ruṣhaṅgu (l), where Ārṣhṭisheṇa had formerly undergone austere penances, and where the great muni Viçvāmitra had become a brahman. Then to that tīrtha where Brahmān (Lokapitāmahaḥ) had created the worlds; where the great B. Ārṣhṭisheṇa had acquired brahmanhood; where the R.-ṛ. Sindhudvīpa, the great ascetic Devāpi (both in the Kṛta age, 1X, 40, 2294), and the muni Viçvāmitra had obtained brahmanhood (IX, 39). Requested by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related the history of Ārṣhṭisheṇa (m) and of Viçvāmitra (n).