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.s7.884

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Kuṇḍalāharaṇa ("the taking away of the ear-rings"). § 10 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 327 (parva, i.e. Kuṇḍalāharaṇaparva). [Kuṇḍalāharaṇaparvan ("the section relating to the taking away of the ear-rings")], the fiftieth of the minor parvans of Mbhr.—§ 546: Asked by Janamejaya, Vaiśampāyana related how Indra removed Yudhishṭhira's fear of Karṇa, as he had promised to Yudhishṭhira through Lomaśa: In the thirteenth year of the exile of the Pāṇḍavas, Indra resolved, in the guise of a brahman, to ask Karṇa for his ear-rings (sprung from amṛta) and mail for the benefit of Arjuna. Sūrya then came to Karṇa in a dream and dissuaded him from giving them. "There is beside some mystery which you will understand in time." Karṇa refused to break his vow always to give to brahmans and confided in the weapons which he had obtained from Rāma Jāmadagnya and Droṇa. Sūrya then prevailed upon him to beseech Indra to give him a dart (III, 300-2).—§ 547: Karṇa (q.v.).