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.s6.157.2

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Agni came back within the twinkling of an eye, having searched everywhere except in the waters, which he dared not enter ("fire rose from water, the kṣatriya caste from the brāhmaṇa caste, and iron from stone; the power of these, which can penetrate all other things, has no operation upon the sources from which they sprang") (V, 15). Bṛhaspati praised Agni (f) and strengthened him with hymns of the Veda; Agni then found out Indra (cf. ch. 14), and soon returned and informed Bṛhaspati. This came with D.-r. and G., and praised Indra by referring to his former deeds (that he had killed the great Asura Namuci and the Asura Çambara and Vala and Vṛtra, as supra). Indra increased little by little, and having assumed his original form he grew strong, and asked what business yet remained, as he had killed Viçvarūpa and Vṛtra. Bṛhaspati told him of Nahuṣa, who had been strengthened by the power of the D.-r., etc. (v. ch. 11), and how Nahuṣa, carried by M.-r., journeyed from world to world. Lp. Kubera and Yama Vaivasvata and Soma and Varuṇa came and rejoiced that Viçvarūpa and Vṛtra had been killed, and they and Agni promised him their assistance against Nahuṣa on the condition that they and Agni should have their shares in sacrifices, and that Kubera (g), Yama (h), and Varuṇa (i) should this day be crowned along with Indra (V, 16). While Indra, with Lp. and D., was considering the means of slaying Nahuṣa, the M.-r.