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.s4.38.1

c5.s4.38.1

[Gālavacarita(m)] ("the history of Gālava"; cf. Gālavasya caritam). § 565 (Bhagavady.): In ancient times, in order to try Viçvāmitra, who was then engaged in ascetic austerities, Dharma in the form of the Rṣi Vasiṣṭha, and feigning himself hungry, came to his hermitage. Viçvāmitra cooked caru, but could not approach Dharma before his guest had dined with the other hermits. Dharma said, "I have already dined; wait here," and went away. Viçvāmitra, bearing that food on his head and himself subsisting on air, waited a hundred years, while the ascetic Gālava waited on him. Then Dharma accepted that food, which was still warm and fresh, and called Viçvāmitra a viprarṣi, whereby he became a brahman. Gālava repeatedly asked Viçvāmitra to take a gift from him as his preceptor, and at last Viçvāmitra, seeing his persistency, requested him to give 800 white steeds each with one black ear (V, 106). Gālava got troubled and was gradually reduced to a skeleton. He thought of repairing to Viṣṇu (or Kṛṣṇa), when his friend Garuḍa came, and said he had spoken to Viṣṇu in his behalf, and that he would bear him (V, 107). Garuḍa described the East: here Savitṛ first rises, and the tapas of the Sādhyas is performed at eve; . . . the two eyes of Dharma; . . . here the daughters of Dakṣa in primeval times gave birth to their children, and here the sons of Kaçyapa first multiplied; here Çakra was first anointed as king of the gods;