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.s6.297.2

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Fully understanding the motives of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Yudhiṣṭhira let Bhīṣma, Vidura, Droṇa, Bāhlīka, Somadatta, Kṛpa, Aśvatthāman, Bhūriśravas, Gāndhārī, etc., give them their benedictions, and the Pāṇḍavas having performed propitiatory rites in order to obtain the kingdom, set out for Vāraṇāvata (I, 143). Duryodhana prevailed upon Purocana to reach Vāraṇāvata that very day upon a swift chariot, and to construct a house of inflammable materials and burn the Pāṇḍavas and Kuntī (I, 144). The people, who were distressed by the departure of the Pāṇḍavas, and angry with Dhṛtarāṣṭra, were calmed by Yudhiṣṭhira. Vidura, in obscure words (cf. Mlecchavācā, v. 5803), warned Yudhiṣṭhira, who explained the meaning to Kuntī. They set out on the 8th day of the month of Phālguna when Rohiṇī was ascendant (I, 145). They were received with great honours by the citizens of Vāraṇāvata and installed by Purocana first in a palace that had been built for them, and after ten days in the lac-house called Śiva (Śivākhyam). Yudhiṣṭhira scented the smell of fat, etc., and told it to Bhīma, but resolved to seem unsuspicious (I, 146). A miner, sent by Vidura, told Yudhiṣṭhira that Purocana would put fire to the house on the fourteenth night of the dark lunation, and made a large subterranean passage (I, 147). They lived there for a year. Then on a certain night Kuntī fed a large number of brahmans;