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.s3.419.3
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.s3.419.3
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he said that Jayadratha was there at the head of 6,000 chariots, etc., followed by twelve Sauvīra princes as his standard-bearers (*Aṅgāraka*, etc., enumerated) (*a*), and his brothers (*Balāhaka*, *Aṅika*, *Vidāraṇa*, etc.) (III, 265). Draupadī told Koṭikāsya who she was, and that her husbands were out a-hunting (*Yudhishṭhira* to the east, *Bhīma* towards the south, *Arjuna* to the west, and the *Açvins* towards the north), and invited them to alight and await the return of the Pāṇḍavas (III, 266). Koṭikāsya told Jayadratha the words of Draupadī, and exhorted him to take her with him to the Sauvīras. Jayadratha introduced himself to Draupadī, who offered him water for washing his feet, and promised him fifty animals for breakfast and various kinds of deer, etc., (enumerated), when *Yudhishṭhira* returned. Jayadratha asked her to leave the miserable Pāṇḍavas and become his wife (III, 267), but was severely rebuked by Draupadī, who threatened him with the Pāṇḍavas. As Jayadratha said, "We too belong by birth to the seventeen high clans, and look down upon the Pāṇḍavas," she threatened him with *Kṛṣṇa* and *Arjuna*, and the *Andhakas*, *Vṛṣṇis*, and Kaikeyas, and called upon Dhaumya. Jayadratha seized her by her upper garment; Draupadī pushed him so that he fell upon the ground; but at last she was obliged to ascend his chariot, while Dhaumya followed amidst Jayadratha's infantry (III, 268).