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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.s7.295.4

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.s7.295.4

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Duryodhana caused Karṇa to rally the troops; Karṇa, employing the Bhārgava weapon, harassed the Pāñcālas, who, with the Cedis, began to lose their senses. The Sṛñjayas called upon Arjuna and Vāsudeva. Arjuna spoke to Kṛṣṇa about Karṇa; Kṛṣṇa reminded him first to seek Yudhiṣṭhira (VIII, 64). Arjuna met with Bhīma and asked him to bring intelligence of Yudhiṣṭhira; Bhīma feared to incur the reproach of cowardice by leaving the battle; Arjuna went to Yudhiṣṭhira in the Pāṇḍava camp upon Bhīma agreeing to resist the Saṃcaptakas. Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa found Yudhiṣṭhira lying on his bed; thinking that Karṇa had been slain (VIII, 65), Yudhiṣṭhira congratulated them (ιι) (VIII, 66). Arjuna told Yudhiṣṭhira the real motive of his arrival in camp (κκκ), and swore to slay Karṇa and all the foes that very day (VIII, 67). Yudhiṣṭhira censured Arjuna, thinking that he had run away from the battle, leaving Bhīma unsupported (λλλ), several times invoking him to give up Gāṇḍīva to somebody else (VIII, 68). Arjuna drew his sword in order to strike off Yudhiṣṭhira's head in fulfilment of his vow about the person who would tell him to give up Gāṇḍīva (μμμ); Kṛṣṇa addressed Arjuna on the nature of truth (ννν), relating the story of Balāka (f) and of Kauҫika (g); Arjuna said he must keep his vow (ξξξ); Kṛṣṇa suggested that Arjuna by insulting Yudhiṣṭhira, by addressing him as "thou," would he regarded as having slain him (οοο) (VIII, 69).