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.s7.294

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invoked the Sauparṇa weapon; birds came down and devoured the snakes; Arjuna sat down, recovered, and invoked the Aindra weapon; the battle became awful (VIII, 53). Kṛtavarman, etc. (θθ), began a fierce battle; Kṛpa & Cikhaṇḍin (+ the Sṛñjayas); Cikhaṇḍin was deprived of his chariot and made inactive; Dhrṣṭadyumna proceeded against Kṛpa; Kṛtavarman & Dhrṣṭadyumna; Aśvatthāman & Yudhiṣṭhira (proceeding towards the chariot of Kṛpa); Duryodhana & Nakula and Sahadeva; Karṇa & Bhīmasena, etc. (ιι); Kṛpa & Cikhaṇḍin; Suketu (the son of Citraketu) & Kṛpa; Cikhaṇḍin retreated; Kṛpa slew Suketu, whose troops fled away; Kṛtavarman & Dhrṣṭadyumna, who made him driverless and was assailed by the Kurus (VIII, 54). Aśvatthāman & Yudhiṣṭhira, etc. (κκ) (description); Prativindhya, etc. (λλ), & Aśvatthāman; Sātyaki had his driver slain; Yudhiṣṭhira went away, leaving his division, against the Kurus; Aśvatthāman also left the spot (VIII, 55). Karṇa & the Kurus: Bāhlikas, etc. (μμ) (description); Duryodhana & Nakula and Sahadeva; Dhrṣṭadyumna (in order to rescue Nakula and Sahadeva) & Duryodhana (δ), who was rescued by his brothers and borne away by Daṇḍadhāra upon the latter's chariot. Karṇa (having vanquished Sātyaki and desirous of rescuing Duryodhana) & Dhrṣṭadyumna + Sātyaki (pursuing Karṇa from behind) + the Pāñcālas; a fierce battle between the two armies when the sun had ascended the meridian; Karṇa & Vyāghraketu, etc. (νν) (description) (οο). Yudhiṣṭhira, etc. (ππ), & Karṇa. Bhīmasena slew the Kurus: Bāhlikas, etc. (ρρ) (description) (σσ). Arjuna addressed Kṛṣṇa upon beholding Karṇa's (ε) prowess, and seeing that the Saṃcaptakas were broken. Arjuna (and Kṛṣṇa) broke through the Kuru host. Duryodhana once more urged the Saṃcaptakas against him. Having slain 10,000 kṣatriyas, Arjuna came to the further wing of the Saṃcaptakas, which was protected by the Kāmbojas; the younger brother of the Kāmboja chief Sudakṣiṇa was killed by Arjuna; the Kāmbojas, etc. (ττ), were slain. Aśvatthāman & Arjuna (+ Kṛṣṇa); Si. and Cā. came; Kṛṣṇa urged Arjuna not to spare Aśvatthāman, who swooned and was carried away by his driver; Arjuna slew the Kuru troops. Arjuna had ronted the Saṃcaptakas, Bhīmasena the Kurus, Karṇa the Pāñcālas. Yudhiṣṭhira, pained by his wounds, had retreated a krośa (VIII, 56). Duryodhana addressed tho Kuru leaders (υυ). Aśvatthāman swore to slay Dhrṣṭadyumna or not to doff his armour (φφ). A fierce battle commenced. D., Aps., etc., came; Aps. rained flowers, etc., on the combatants (VIII, 57). Arjuna pointed out to Kṛṣṇa that the Pāṇḍava army was flying away, Karṇa slaying their warriors, and Yudhiṣṭhira nowhere to be seen; "the third part of the day still remains." Arjuna proceeded to Yudhiṣṭhira (+ Sṛñjayas); Kṛṣṇa described the field of battle to Arjuna (χχ). A terrible battle commenced (VIII, 58). The Kurus (headed by Karṇa) & the Sṛñjayas (Pārthas, headed by Yudhiṣṭhira); a remnant only of the Saṃcaptakas were left alive. Dhrṣṭadyumna + the Pāṇḍavas (and all the kings on their side) & Karṇa; Sātyaki & Karṇa; Aśvatthāman & Dhrṣṭadyumna; Karṇa & the Pāñcālas, etc. (ψψ); Dhrṣṭadyumna was worsted by Aśvatthāman and rescued by Arjuna; Arjuna & Aśvatthāman (abandoning Dhrṣṭadyumna); Dhrṣṭadyumna was brought away by Sahadeva on the latter's chariot; Aśvatthāman swooned on his chariot and was carried away by his driver. Arjuna proceeded towards the Saṃcaptakas (VIII, 59).