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.s6.205.1

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[Jambūkhaṇḍavinirmāṇaparvan (°va)] ("the section relating to the measurement of Jambūkhaṇḍa," the 67th of the minor parvas of Mhbhr.; cf. °vinirmāṇa). § 574: Janamejaya inquired how the Kurus and the Pāṇḍavas and Somakas fought on Kurukshetra. Vaiśampāyana began the description of the battle. The Pāṇḍavas occupied the western part, turned towards the east, beyond Samantapañcaka. The force was collected from the whole of Jambūdvīpa. Yudhishṭhira and Duryodhana fixed watchwords. Seeing Duryodhana (description), the Pañcālas were filled with joy, and blew their conches, etc.; Arjuna and Kṛshṇa also blew their conches Devadatta and Pāñcajanya, at which the Kurus were alarmed. Various ill omens were beheld. Both parties settled rules and made covenants regarding the different kinds of combat (VI, 1). Vyāsa visited Dhṛtarāshṭra, and offered to grant him spiritual vision that he might witness the battle. Dhṛtarāshṭra did not like to see the slaughter of his kinsmen. Vyāsa then granted it to Sañjaya, that he might narrate everything to Dhṛtarāshṭra; weapons would not hurt him; he would come out of the battle with life. Vyāsa informed Dhṛtarāshṭra of the omens (a), and appealed to him for peace; but Dhṛtarāshṭra urged the disobedience of his sons. Vyāsa enumerated to Dhṛtarāshṭra the omens that indicate victory, and recommended negotiation, as victory was uncertain (VI, 2, 3). Then Vyāsa departed.