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.s6.297.3

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and there came also a Niṣāda woman with her five sons, who became intoxicated and lay down in the house to sleep. The Pāṇḍavas then set fire to the house and burnt Purocana and the Niṣādas, while they themselves escaped through the subterranean passage and fled in haste, Bhīma carrying his mother and brothers (cf. III, v. 546 foll.). The citizens thought they had been burnt to death (I, 148). A person sent by Vidura took the Pāṇḍavas and Kuntī to the other side of the Gaṅgā in a boat (I, 149). The miner had covered the hole he had dug with ashes, and the towns-people thought that the Niṣāda woman with her five sons were Kuntī and the Pāṇḍavas, and sent to Dhṛtarāṣṭra to inform him that they had been burnt to death together with Purocana. Dhṛtarāṣṭra wept in deep sorrow, and caused the funeral rites to be performed. Meanwhile the Pāṇḍavas having crossed the Gaṅgā proceeded in the darkness to the south and reached a dense forest. Yudhiṣṭhira then prevailed upon Bhīma to carry Kuntī and his brothers (I, 150). The motion of Bhīma’s legs raised a wind like that of the months of Cuci and Cukra, while he trod down the trees and swam across streams. Towards evening they sat down in a terrible forest under a banyan-tree. Kuntī was thirsty, and Bhīma proceeded to a pool at a distance of a gavyūti, and brought water by soaking his upper garments.