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.s3.550.2

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then he (Śakuni), who was skilled in dice, would win his kingdom and prosperity for Duryodhana (II, 48). Śakuni told Dhṛtarāṣṭra that Duryodhana was pale and depressed; Dhṛtarāṣṭra asked Duryodhana the cause; Duryodhana told him that Yudhiṣṭhira supported 88,000 snātakas, giving to each of them thirty slave-girls; that 10,000 other brahmans daily ate at his palace the best food off golden plates; that the king of Kāmbhoja sent to him innumerable skins, etc.; that the ocean brought the Vāruṇa nectar to him in a vessel of copper, as the celestial wives (amarastriyaḥ) to Indra; that Vāsudeva, having brought an excellent conch, bathed him with sea-water brought in 1,000 jars of gold, etc., from the eastern, southern, and western oceans; that the conches, which were blown when 100,000 brahmans were fed, could be heard there almost incessantly, etc. Duryodhana proposed to Dhṛtarāṣṭra to invite Yudhiṣṭhira to a game at dice with Śakuni, and prevented him from consulting Vidura till he had had a sabhā built. Then he ordered Vidura, who dissuaded him in vain, to invite Yudhiṣṭhira. Vidura in great sorrow went to Bhīṣma (II, 49). — At the request of Janamejaya, Vaiśampāyana related that Dhṛtarāṣṭra, having ascertained the opinion of Vidura (b), sought to bring Duryodhana back from his purpose to play at dice;