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.s6.261.1

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[Jarāsandhavadhaparvan] (“the section relating to the killing of Jarāsandha,” the 23rd of the minor parvans of Mhbhr.; cf. Jarāsandhavadha). § 276: As Kṛshṇa thought that Jarāsandha was incapable of being vanquished in battle even by all the gods and Asuras, but might be vanquished in a personal struggle with bare arms (prāṇayuddha, PCR.), and as there was in himself policy, in Bhīma strength, and in Arjuna ability to protect them, he thought that Jarāsandha should be made to challenge Bhīma, and Kṛshṇa therefore obtained the permission of Yudhishṭhira that Bhīma and Arjuna followed him. They set ont in the garb of snatakas, with Bhīma in the van, from the land of the Kurus to the Padmasaras, over Kalakūṭa, Gaṇḍaki, Mahācoṇa, Sadānīrā (v. 794 runs thus in V.: Gaṇḍakiñca Sadānīrāṃ Çarkarā-varttam eva ca), the rivers on the Ekaparvataka (? see BR.) and Pūrvā (i.e. Eastern) Koçalā (B. has pūrvāṃ ca Koçalān), Mithilā, Mālā, Carmanvatī, Gaṅgā, Çoṇa, towards the east, dressed in garments of kuça-grass (instead of kuçaciracchadā V. has Kuçāmbarahsthalam), to the Māgadha land. When they came to the mountain of Goratha, they beheld the Māgadha town (II, 20).—§ 277: Girivraja is surrounded by the five large hills of Vaihara, Varaha, Vṛṣabha, Ṛṣigiri, and Caityaka. It was there that Gautama begat Kākṣīvat, etc., upon the śūdra woman Auṣīnari, and was visited by the kings of Aṅga, Vaṅga, etc. There dwell the Nāgas Arbuda, Cakravāpin, Svastika, and Maṇināga.