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.s3.434.2

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About this time Rāma Jāmadagnya desired to distribute his wealth among the brahmans, and Droṇa (of the race of Aṅgiras, v. 5122) with his disciples set out for the mountain Mahendra to have his share in the wealth and learn from Rāma the *Dhanurveda*, the use of celestial weapons, and the *nītiśāstra*. When he arrived, Rāma had already given his wealth to the brahmans and the earth to *Kaśyapa*; he then asked D. to choose either his body or his weapons. Droṇa accepted the weapons and the *Dhanurveda*, and then repaired to Drupada: I, 130, 5110, 5114, 5122, 5124, 5130, (5131).—§ 202 (do.): As Drupada rebuked him for calling him his friend, D., filled with wrath, went to Hāstinapura, where he for some time lived privately in the house of *Kṛpa* (his brother-in-law), while *Aśvatthāman*, being unknown, taught the Pārthas (i.e. the Pāṇḍavas) the use of arms. One day, when D. had by means of blades of grass, which were consecrated by mantras, recovered a ball which the princes had lost in a well, and, by means of an arrow, his ring which he had thrown into the well, he was called to *Bhīṣma*, whom he told that he had applied to Drupada in order to obtain milk for *Aśvatthāman* (b), but had been rebuked by him. *Bhīṣma* asked D. to make the princes accomplished in arms: I, 131, 5136, 5155, 5158, (5160), 5162, 5164, 5167, (5168), 5170, 5171, (5172), 5177, 5188.—§ 203 (do.): *Bhīṣma* presented D.