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.s2.528.7
An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s2.528.7
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Caitraratha[m] parvan.) § 216: Within a few days there came a brahman to the abode of their host, whom they asked to narrate the birth of Dhṛṣṭadyumna from the sacrificial fire, and that of Kṛṣṇā from the centre of the vedī, and that of Çikhaṇḍin, and how Dhṛṣṭadyumna learnt the use of all weapons from Droṇa, and how the friendship of Droṇa and Drupada was broken (I, 165).—§ 217: The brahman related (not mentioning Açvatthāman) the birth of Droṇa (§ 200), his friendship with Drupada, and his visit to Rāma (§ 201; he obtained the Brahmāstra, v. 6340), the breaking of his friendship with Drupada (§ 202), how Bhīṣma prevailed upon him to teach the princes, etc. (both Arjuna and the others promised to give what he might ask for his fee, v. 6346), and the chastisement of Drupada (§ 209; Drupada resides in Chattravatī, v. 6348) (I, 166).—§ 218: Draupadīsambhava (q.v.).—§ 219: Hearing the words of the brahman, the sons of Kuntī seemed to be, as it were, pierced with darts. Kuntī proposed to Yudhiṣṭhira that they should go to the Pāñcālas, a country they had not seen before, and he consented for his part.