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.s7.293.2

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and Pṛ., etc., appeared (VIII, 30). Dhṛtarāṣṭra exulted the prowess of Arjuna (οο). The Kurus, in grief, took counsel of one another; Karṇa assured Duryodhana that he would slay Arjuna on the morrow. On the morrow they beheld an invincible army formed by Yudhiṣṭhira according to the rules of Bṛhaspati and Uḍanas. Duryodhana and his troops put confidence in Karṇa. Dhṛtarāṣṭra's grief (ππ); Sañjaya rebuked him by reminding him of his evil acts (ρρ). At dawn Karṇa repeated before Duryodhana his pledge to slaughter Arjuna; "my bow Vijaya (σ) is the foremost of all weapons; . . . Arjuna is superior to me only by having Kṛṣṇa ('the Creator of the Universe') for his charioteer, the chariot given him by Agni, his steed, and his standard with the Ape." He desirod to have Ḍalya ("who is superior to Kṛṣṇa") to drive his chariot; Duryodhana solicited Ḍalya (VIII, 31) to comply with Karṇa's wishes (σσ); Ḍalya took offence at the proposal (ττ); Duryodhana repeated his request in honorific words (υυ), and Ḍalya accepted on the condition that he might, in Karṇa's presence, utter whatever he desired (φφ) (VIII, 32). § 606: Duryodhana related to Ḍalya Tripurākhyāna (q.v.), which the great R. Mārkaṇḍeya had narrated to his father. "As Brahmān, . . . the Supreme Deity acted as the driver of Rudra, so do thou restrain the steeds of Karṇa" (VIII, 33). He then related a story of Paraḍu-Rāma (b), which a virtuous brahman had recited in the presence of his father.