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.s7.532

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Kirmīravadhaparvan (°va) ("the section relating to the killing of Kirmīra," the 31st of the minor parvans of Mbbhr.; cf. Kirmīravadha). § 316: Vidura had heard it from the Pāṇḍavas and now related it to Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Departing from Hāstinapura and travelling for three days and nights the Pāṇḍavas reached the Kāmyaka wood. At midnight a man-eating rākṣhasa, Kirmīra, brother of Baka and friend of Hiḍimba, obstructed their path with a lighted brand, and would avenge himself on Bhīma. Kṛṣhṇa was afraid Dhaumya destroyed his illusion by rākṣhasa - destroying mantras. *Arjuna* stringed his bow *Gāṇḍīva*; but *Bhīma*, making him desist, fought with trees, etc., against *Kirmira*, as the brothers *Vāli* and *Sugrīva* had done of yore for the sake of the same woman. At last *Bhīma* seized him with his arms and whirled him about and killed him. Then placing *Kṛṣṇa* in their front they set out for *Dvaitavana*. Having cleared the forest of its pest they began to live there. “Passing through the forest, I saw the body of the *rākṣasa*, and heard the story from the brahmans” (III, 11).