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.s7.939.2

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Yakṣiṇī).—§ 364 (do.): III, 83, 6080 (the ṛṣis had gone from the Naimiṣa forest to K.).—§ 367 (Pṛthūdaka): III, 83, 7015 (*puṇyam*). — § 369 (cf. Tīrthayātrāp.): Naimiṣa is the foremost tīrtha with regard to merit on earth, Puṣhkara with regard to merit in the firmament, K. with regard to merit in the three worlds (so Nil. and PCR.; Nil. takes K. in this ҫloka to be another name of Kāҫi, cf. also the note of PCR.); the mere dust of K. leads even a sinful man to bliss (*paramāṃ gatim*); they who reside in K., which lies to the south of the Sarasvatī and to the north of the Dṛṣadvatī, really reside in heaven (*Tripiṣṭhape*). He who merely expresses the wish to go to K. becomes cleansed of his sins. K. is the altar of Brahmān (*Brahmavedī*) worshipped by the Brahmaṛṣis; the country between Tarantuka and Arantuka and Rāma's lakes and Macakruka, that *Kurukṣetra-Samantapañcaka* is styled the northern altar (*uttaravedī*) of Pitāmaha: III, 83, 7073, 7074, 7075, 7076, 7077, †7078 (*Tarantukārantukayor yad antaram Rāmahradānāṃ ҫa Macakrukasya ҫa | etal Kurukṣetra-Samantapañcakam Pitāmahasyottaravedī ucyate*).—§ 375 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 85, 8230 (*sama Gaṅgā*), 8233 (*dvāpare ’pi, sc.