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.s2.918

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[Çapathavidhi] (“the taking of oaths”). § 751b (Anuçāsanik.) (†vv. 4549-4561). Bhīshma said: Once B.-r. and R.-r. proceeded to the western Prabhāsa, and resolved to visit all the sacred waters on earth; there were Çukra, etc. (a), and Indra; they reached Kauçikī on the day of full-moon in the month of Māgha, and then Brahmasaras, where they gathered and ate the stalks of the lotus; Agastya’s stalks had been taken away; he complained of the increasing unrighteousness, and thought of going to heaven in order not to live to see yet worse things; the R. took, each of them, the most frightful oaths to their own innocence (β); but Indra uttered “a benediction instead of a curse,” and confessed that he had stolen the stalks, not from cupidity, but from desire of hearing what R. would say. Agastya forgave him. Then they proceeded to other tirthas *(XIII, 94).