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.s2.50.4

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named Tāraka, in which Skanda (Mahāsena) slew Tāraka and obtained the command of the celestial forces; in that tīrtha is a gigantic Açvattha tree, under whose shade Kārttikeya (Skanda) always resides in person (IX, 43). Requested by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related the investiture of Skanda (u). The tīrtha, where in days of yore Varuṇa, the lord of the waters, had been installed by the gods, is named Taijasa. Having bathed in that tīrtha, and in Skanda, Bala-Rāma gave gold, etc., and after passing one night there, he became purified (IX, 44-46). Requested by Janamejaya, Vaiçampāyana related the installation of Indra (v). Thence Baladeva (“the slayer of Pralamba”) went to Agnitīrtha, where Agni had performed penances in the Çami wood, where he had been invisible to the gods, and asked him to perform the sacrifice (IX, 46). Vaiçampāyana continued.