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.s4.263.2

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Duryodhana then started with Karna, Duḥśāsana, Ṣakuni, etc., and ladies by the thousand, followed by the citizens and their wives, with 8,000 chariots, etc., and took up his quarters at the distance of a gavyūti from the lake of Dvaitavana (III, 239). Having caused the calves to be marked, etc., Duryodhana, etc., began to sport and go a-hunting, and came to the lake. Yudhiṣṭhira was then, together with Draupadī, celebrating the diurnal rājarshi sacrifice according to the ceremonial used in the forest. When the attendants of Duryodhana came to the banks of the lake to construct pleasure-houses, they were forbidden to enter by a number of Gandharvas, who told them that the king of the Gandharvas had come from the abode of Kubera, with his followers and several hosts of Apsarases, etc., and when Duryodhana sent a number of his warriors, they also were prevailed upon by the Gandharvas to retura (III, 240). A battle ensued between the soldiers of Duryodhana and the Gandharvas, headed by their king Citrasena; the soldiers of Duryodhana fled, except Karna, who killed hundreds of Gandharvas. Duryodhana, Ṣakuni, Duḥśāsana, and Vikarṇa returned to assist Karna, and the battle was renewed. Citrasena made use of illusion; it seemed as if every warrior of the Kuru army were surrounded by ten Gandharvas. The entire army of Duryodhana again fled, except Karna. The Gandharvas then destroyed the chariot of Karna, who, mounting the chariot of Vikarṇa, was forced to drive away (III, 241).