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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.s4.262

An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s4.262

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c5.s4.262

[Ghoshayātrāparvan] ("the expedition to the cattle station"), the 43rd of the minor parvans of Mhbhr. (cf. Ghoshayātrā). § 512: When the Pāndavas had arrived at the lake (of Dvaitavana, Nil.), and were dwelling in the woods visited by veda-knowing ascetics, there came to them a brāhman, who afterwards went away to Dhṛtarāṣṭra and told him how the Pāndavas had become emaciated and reduced by wind and sun. Dhṛtarāṣṭra was much afflicted, considering that Yudhiṣṭhira, who had formerly used to sleep on beds of raṅku skins and to be wakened by sūtas and māgadhas, now slept on the bare ground; he lamented the treatment he had permitted to be meted out to the Pāndavas, and feared lest they would avenge themselves; Arjuna, he thought, would not have