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.s6.252.3

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(γ), and set himself to his recitations again. Asked by Ikṣvāku, he agreed that he should go half and half with the king. Indra came there with D., Lp., Sā., Vi., etc. (δ), and said to the brahman and the king that they had attained to success ([sam]siddhaḥ). Those two withdrew their senses from the objects of the world; fixing prāṇa, etc. (ε), in the heart, they concentrated the mind in Prāṇa and Apāna united together, etc. (description). Brahmán welcomed the fiery flame that had issued from the head of the brahman, saying: “Reciters attain to the same end as the yogins; but as regards reciters, the honour is ordained for them that Brahmán himself shall advance to receive them”; then he once more imparted consciousness into that splendour; the brahman then entered the mouth of Brahmán, and so did the king. The deities rejoiced. Brahmán said that so also would he that reads “the great Smṛti” and “the Anusmṛti” (i.e. resp. “the six Aṅgas and Manu, etc.,” Nil.) in this way attain to the same region with Brahmán; and so also he is devoted to Yoga. Then Brahmán disappeared, and the deities, having honoured Dharma, returned to their respective abodes (XII, 200).