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.s7.261.4

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They adopted the child and called him Vasuṣeṇa and Vṛṣa (only afterwards he was uamed K.). After having adopted K., Adhiratha had other sons begotten by himself. When K. had grown up he was sent to Hāstinapura, and acquired the four kinds of weapons from Droṇa, Kṛpa, and Rāma, and became the friend of Duryodhana, but was intent on injuring the Pāṇḍavas, especially Arjuna. Yudhiṣṭhira was afraid of him. When K. after rising from the water at noon worshipped Sūrya, brahmans used to solicit him for wealth, and there was nothing that he would not give away to the brahmans (III, 309). Indra in the guise of a brahman appeared before him, asked him for his coat of mail, and gave him instead a dart (Vāsavī), which could not be baffled and which, in the hands of Indra, destroyed the Daityas and then returned to him. “This dart can only slay one powerful enemy of thine and then it will retura to me, but it will not be that one which thon seekest to slay, for he is protected by Kṛṣṇa.” K. cut the coat of mail and ear-rings off his person, Indra having granted him that his body thus disfigured should not become unsightly. Gods and men and Dānavas raised a leonine roar. For this feat he was called Karṇa. The Dhārtarāṣṭras became distressed and the Pāṇḍavas were filled with joy. Having rescued Kṛṣṇa from Jayadratha and listened to the ancient stories recited by Mārkaṇḍeya, the Pāṇḍavas returned from Kāmyaka to Dvaitavana (III, 310): III, 303, 16998;