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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.s4.312

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.s4.312

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Goloka ("the world of kine"). [§ 615f (Asita Devala): IX, 50, 2894 (gavām lokam).]—§ 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 343, 13298 (sanātanam); 34800, 13502 (the upper lip of lokam), 3547 (°vāsinām); [73, †3566 (lokam gavām), †3568 (gavām lokam)]; 83, [3891 (gavām loke)], 3915, 3922.—§ 752 (do.): XIII, 96, 4649.—[§ 757m (Hastikūṭa): Gautama said: Next [to Prājāpatyā(ḥ) lokāḥ] blaze eternal redolent regions, free from passion and sorrow, the world of kine, difficult to attain. Dhṛtarāṣṭra said: He who possessing 1,000 kine gives away 100 every year, etc., the brahmans who grow old practising brahmacarya, who obey the declarations of the Vedas (brāhmīm vācam), and, endued with intelligence, betake themselves to tīrthayātrās, dwell here in felicity; likewise those who repair to Prabhāsa, etc. (a): XIII, 102, 4884 (gavām loke).—[§ 758 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 105, 4910 (gavām lokam).]