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.s3.497.2

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to §§ 131 and 175).—§ 589 (Droṇābhiṣhekap.): VII, 11μ, 390 (had granted boons to Kṛṣṇa).—§ 734 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 26a, 1763 (among the ṛshis who came to see Bhīshma as he lay on his arrow-bed).—§ 770 (do.): XIII, 151λ, 7123.—§ 773δ (Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva): XIII, 159a, †7382.—§ 773ε (Anuçāsanik.): *Kṛṣṇa* said: [Formerly] I put up in my house the brahman *Durvāsas*, who was green and tawny, clad in rags (*cīravāsāḥ*), who had a stick of *Bilva* (*Ægle marmelos*, Liun.), a long beard, who was emaciated, taller than the tallest men; he wandered over all the celestial and human worlds, singing this verse at congregations and in public squares: “Who would cause the brahman *D.* to dwell in his house? He becomes enraged with everyone even at the slightest transgression; he that would give me shelter should not anger me.” As no one took otice of him (read with B. *nādriyate*), I invited him. Sometimes he would eat food sufficient for many thousand persons, sometimes very little, and [sometimes] he would not return home; he would laugh and weep without any visible reason; no one at that time was equal to him in years; [one day] he burnt all the beds and coverlets and all the well-adorned damsels, and then went out; then he asked for rice-milk (*pāyasa*); having previously caused every kind of food and drink to be kept ready, I caused hot rice-milk to be brought; having eaten some, he ordered me to smear my limbs with the remnant, which I did;