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.s7.164

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[Kāmyakavanapraveça(h)] ("proceeding to the Kāmyaka-wood," cf. *Arjunābhigamanap.*). § 328: As *Yudhiṣṭhira* declared that *Bhūriçravas*, *Çala*, *Jalasandha*, etc., and *Karṇa* (master of all weapons, etc.), and the *Dhārtarāṣṭras*, together with the kings who had been injured by the Pāṇḍavas, could not now be vanquished, that all the *Kaurava* soldiers and their families had been hononred with wealth and luxuries by *Duryodhana*, and would sacrifice their lives for him, and that, although *Bhīṣma*, *Droṇa*, and *Kṛpa*, all knowing celestial weapons and being invincible, behaved equally towards both parties, they would certainly, to pay off the royal favours they enjoyed, lay down their very lives in battle, *Bhīma* remained silent.—§ 329: While they were conversing thus *Vyāsa* appeared, and, taking *Yudhiṣṭhira* into a corner, taught him, after he had purified himself (*çuddhayē*), the science of *Pratismṛti*, by means of which *Arjuna* (b) should proceed to *Mahendra*, *Rudra*, *Varuṇa*, *Kubera*, and *Yama*, to receive weapons from them. *He* also advised him to go to some other forest in order to not cause uneasiness to the ascetics and exterminate the deer and destroy the plants. Then *Vyāsa* disappeared. The *Pāṇḍavas* went to the forest of *Kāmyaka* on the banks of the *Sarasvatī*, followed by numerous brahmans versed in *çikṣā* and *akṣara* (see § 322), and lived there devoted to the *Dhanurveda*, and sacrificing to the *Pitṛs*, the gods, and the brahmans (III, 36).