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# 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.s2.69.3

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.s2.69.3

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### [c5.s2.69.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.69.3)

"never will come the day when the Sun will shine only from the meridian (madhyataḥ sthitaḥ); Brahmán has before this laid down the laws that regulate the Sun's motions . . ." Bali proceeded towards the South; Indra proceeded towards the North and ascended the skies (XII, 225).—(β) § 673β (Mokshadh.): Bhīshma said: After the battle between the gods and the Asuras, in which a large number of Dai. and Dā. fell, Bali became king. He was deceived by Viṣṇu, who once more established his sway over all the worlds. Indra was once more invested with the sovereignty of the gods, etc.; the three worlds once more swelled with prosperity, and Brahmán became glad of heart. At that time Indra, accompanied by R., V., Ā., A., D.-ṛ., G., Si., etc., seated on the four-tusked Airāvata, made a progress through all the worlds. Once he saw Bali Vairocanī within a certain mountain cave on the sea-shore. Bali showed no signs of sorrow or agitation. Indra asked him how it was that he was so unmoved; "thou art bound with Varuṇa's noose and hast been struck with my thunderbolt." Bali said: "What I am now, thou wilt be in the future," explaining that only time (not merit) rules the destiny of men; "that thou regardest thyself as the actor is the root of all sorrow"; "in the course of time many thousands of Indras and of deities have been swept away yuga after yuga, and will be swept away in future . . . , just as Pṛthu, etc.

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