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.s3.550.4

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then Bibhatsu (= Arjuna) gave to the principal brahmans 500 hullocks with horns plated with gold, and Yudhiṣṭhira obtained, like Hariçcandra, such prosperity that he surpassed Rantideva, Nābhāga, Yauvanāçva, Manu, Pṛthu Vainya, Bhagīratha, Yayāti, and Nahuṣa (II, 53). — § 297: Continuation of the conversation between Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Duryodhana (II, 54, 55). — § 298: As Śakuni recommended the match of dice and praised his own dexterity in gambling, and Duryodhana spoke reprovingly of Vidura on account of his fondness for the Pāṇḍavas, etc., Dhṛtarāṣṭra reluctantly caused the sabhā (called Toraṇasphaṭikā) to be built, with 1,000 columns adorned with gold and lapis lazuli, a kroça in length and breadth, and then ordered Vidura to bring Yudhiṣṭhira and his brothers (II, 56, 57). Vidura arrived at the palace of Yudhiṣṭhira and invited him. Yudhiṣṭhira, having learned that he should have to play with Śakuni, Vivimçati, Citrasena, Satyavrata, Purumitra, and Jaya, “the most desperate and terrible gamblers, always depending upon deceit,” was unwilling to come; but as he had made the vow never to refuse when challenged, he set out for Hāstinapura the next day with his relatives, Draupadī, brahmans, etc., riding on the chariot taken charge of (so BR.) by Bāhlika, and when he had arrived he saluted Bhīṣma, Drona, Karṇa, Kṛpa, Aṣvatthāman, Somadatta, Duryodhana, Çalya, Saubala, Duḥçāsana, Jayadratha, etc., and Gāndhārī and Dhṛtarāṣṭra (II, 58). Śakuni exhorted Yudhiṣṭhira to gamble.