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.s3.421.1

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**[Draupadīparitāpavākya(m)]** ("the complaints of Draupadī"; cf. Arjunābhigamanaparvan). § 325 : While they were conversing in the evening, filled with sorrow, Kṛṣṇa, who wondered at the hardheartedness of Duryodhana, Karṇa, Çakuni, and Duḥśasana, who were the only four that did not shed tears at their being exiled, and who lamented their present state so different from their former happiness, tried to excite Yudhishthira to revenge himself (III, 27). — § 326 : Draupadī related the old story of the conversation between Prahlāda (the chief of the Asuras and the Dānavas, well versed in the mysteries of the science of duty) and his grandson Bali Vairocanā, in which Prahlāda told Bali that neither might nor forgiveness is invariably meritorious, and then she said: "I therefore consider, O king! that time has come for thee to put forth thy might" (III, 28). — § 327 : Yudhishthira maintained that a wise man should ever forgive his persecutor; that wrath has been given to man for the destruction of the world; and cited gāthās of the forgiving Kāçyapa: "Forgiveness is virtue, sacrifice, the Vedas, etc.; men of forgiveness obtain regions in the Brahmaloka; when one forgives everything, then he becomes brāhman (brahma sampadyate); this and the other world belongs to him who forgives, etc." (III, 29). From the fact that pious persons are often unhappy (v.