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.s4.303.1

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Goharaṇaparvan ("the section relating to the robbing of the kine of Virāṭa," the 55th of the minor parvans of Mbhr.; cf. Gograhana). § 552: Meanwhile the spies of Duryodhana returned to Hāstinapura and informed Duryodhana, who was sitting with Droṇa, Karṇa, Kr̥pa, Bhīṣhma, his brothers, and the Trigartas, that they had not found the Pāṇḍavas, but that Kīcaka (b) had been slain (IV, 25). Karṇa and Duhçāsana proposed that the other spies should be sent (IV, 26). Droṇa said: "People like the Pāṇḍavas never perish, let the abode which the Pāṇḍavas are to occupy now be settled" (IV, 27). Bhīṣhma applauded Droṇa (IV, 28). Kr̥pa recommended precautions (IV, 29). The Trigarta king, Suçarman, supported by Karṇa, proposed to invade the city of Virāṭa and to rob his kine and wealth, and thus to take revenge for the invasions of the Matsyas headed by Kīcaka. Duryodhana caused Duhçāsana to array their forces. Suçarman set out towards the south-east on the seventh day of the dark fortnight, and the Kauravas on the eighth day (IV, 30). After Kīcaka had been slain, Virāṭa began to rest his hopes on the Pāṇḍavas. His brothers, Çatānīka and Madirākṣa, and the king himself, and Sūryadatta and Çaṅkha, the eldest son of Virāṭa, put on their coats of mail. Virāṭa also caused Çatānīka to order chariots for Kaṅka, Vallava, Tantripāla, and Dāmagranthi (i.e. Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīmasena, Nakula, and Sahadeva in disguise) (IV, 31). The Matsyas overtook the Trigartas shortly before sunset.