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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.s7.190

An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s7.190

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c5.s7.190

Kaṇikavākya(m) ("the speech of *Kaṇika*"). § 212 (Sambhavap.). Dhṛtarāṣṭra consulted the minister Kaṇika, who, after having expounded some very Machiavellian principles of policy, and told the fable of the jackal, the tiger, the mouse, the wolf, and the mongoose, concluded by advising him to destroy the Pāṇḍavas (I, 140).