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.s3.528.3

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Arjuna told them that after their exile they would take away the good name of their enemies, and asked them to beseech the ascetics for their good. At last they returned to their respective abodes (III, 23). After a conference between Yudhisṭhira and Arjuna, they resolved upon dwelling for these twelve years at the sacred lake Dvaitavana (see BR.) in the forest of the same name (copious description), on the banks of Bhagavatai (i.e. Sarasvatī, Nīl.), surrounded by many brahmans, and saluted by hosts of Ċāraṇas and Siddhas, who came to see Yudhisṭhira (III, 24).—§ 323: While they were dwelling there, Dhaumya performed their ishṭis (i.e. darċa-pūrṇamāsa, etc., Nīl.) and offerings to the Pitrs, etc. Once the old rshi Mārkaṇḍeya came to them and smiled, recollecting Rāma Dāċarathi, whom he had seen on the top of the Rshyamūka, and comforted Yudhisṭhiraby reminding him of the aforesaid Rāma, Nābhāga, Bhagiratha, and Alarka, the king of the Kāċis and the Karūshas (b), the seven rshis, who had followed the ordinance of the Creator and therefore blazed in the firmament; "so you will regain prosperity." Then he went away in a northerly direction (III, 25).—§ 324: The Dvaitavana forest becoming filled with brahmans (Bhr̥gus, Āṅgirasas, Vāsisṭhas, Kāċyapas, Agastyas, Ātreyas, etc.), and always resounding with Vedic recitations, mingling with the twangs of the bows of the Pāṇḍavas, a beautiful union of brahman and kshatriya customs was produced.