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.s3.497.3

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then he smeared *Rukmiṇī*, and causing her to be yoked to a chariot, he, ascending that chariot, set out of my house, striking her with the hook, and proceeded along the high road; the *Dāçarhas* became angry; as *Rukmiṇī* tottered, he struck her [with the whip]; then he leapt down from the chariot and fled towards the south on foot, followed by us. Then he became gratified because I had subdued my anger, and said: “As long as gods and men will continue to entertain a liking for food, so long will everyone among them cherish the same liking for thee; so long as there will be righteous [men] (*puṇyāḥ*) in the worlds, so long will thy fame last; agreeable thou shalt be to all persona; whatever articles of thine have been broken or burnt or destroyed, thou shalt see restored or even better; thou wilt have no fear of death through such parts of thy body as have been smeared [with the rice-milk]; thou ought to have smeared also the soles of thy feet.” I saw my body endued with great beauty and splendour. He also blessed *Rukmiṇī*, saying: “Thou shalt be the foremost of women in fame, etc., free from decrepitude or diseases or loss of complexion, possessed of a fragrant odour, the foremost of *Kṛṣṇa*’s 60,000 wives, and [after death] thou shalt dwell in the same world as *Kṛṣṇa*.” Having recommended me to ba always thus disposed towards the brahmans, he disappeared. I and *Rukmiṇī* took the vow of always satisfying the brahmans.