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.s3.550.5

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Yudhiṣṭhira quoted Asita Devala (b), but he was obliged to assent; Duryodhana said that he himself would supply jewels, etc., and that it was for him that Śakuni would play (II, 59). The play began, the stake being a wreath of pearls, which Śakuni won (II, 60). Śakuni then won from Yudhiṣṭhira his treasury, slave-girls, serving-men, elephants, chariots, the Gandharva horses which Citrasena had given to Arjuna, his warriors, and nidhis (II, 61). Vidura, addressing Dhṛtarāṣṭra, quoted the words of Kāvya, and reminded him that among the Bhojas they had abandoned an unworthy (asamañjasam) son; the Andhakas, Yādavas, and Bhojas had abandoned Kamsa, and when he had been slain by Kṛṣṇa the whole tribe became glad for a hundred years; “[likewise] let Arjuna slay this Suyodhana at thy command”; he quoted what Kāvya said to the Asuras in order to induce them to abandon Jambha, and related how a king from greediness after gold killed some gold-vomiting fowls that dwelt in his house, and so destroyed both his present and future wealth (II, 62). Vidura warned against the gambling, and suggested to Dhṛtarāṣṭra rather to win the Pāṇḍavas than their wealth, and to let Śakuni, the hill-king (Pārealiyak), return whence he came (II, 63). Duryodhana blamed Vidura for his partiality towards the Pāṇḍavas, and said that he would only follow the advice of his own intellect.