[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s6.182.3 # 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.s6.182.3 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.s6.182.3 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s6.182.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.182.3) Vidura continued his discourse, and described human life as it runs (XI, 3) from the very beginning (XI, 4), comparing it to a wilderness abounding with dangers (XI, 5), explaining the comparison according to the religion of \*Mokṣa\* (XI, 6); asked by \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\*, \*Vidura\* continued his discourse on human life (XI, 7). \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\* swooned away, but was comforted by \*Vyāsa\*, etc. (ε), wept and lamented; \*Vyāsa\* comforted him by explaining the secret history of the slaughter (he had seen the Earth in \*Indra's\* hall, complaining before the gods and D.-r. and \*Nārada\*, and \*Viṣṇu\* consoling her, saying that \*Duryodhana\* would cause her burden to be lightened by a battle in \*Kurukṣetra\*), etc. (ζ). \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\* promised to live; \*Vyāsa\* disappeared (XI, 8). \*Vaiśampāyana\* related: After \*Duryodhana\* had been slain, and all the troops slaughtered, \*Sañjaya\*, deprived of his spiritual sight, came back to \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\*, and recommended him to cause the obsequial rites to be performed. \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\* swooned away; \*Vidura\* comforted him ("Time drags all kinds of creatures away," etc.) (XI, 9). \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\* resolved to visit the field of battle with the \*Kuru\* ladies in his company. The \*Kuru\* ladies (\*Gāndhārī\*, \*Kuntī\*, etc.) were placed in chariots under \*Vidura's\* supervision; the royal household, with a large number of the citizens, started from \*Hāstinapura\* (XI, 10). Having proceeded a \*krośa\*, \*Dhṛtarāṣṭra\* met with \*Aśvatthāman\*, etc. (9). - [Previous: c5.s6.182.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.182.2) - [Next: c5.s6.182.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.182.4) - [Up: c5.s6.182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.182) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.182.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.182.3) · Pramāṇa