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.s9.169.2

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Yudhishṭhira, etc., set out with their faces turned towards the east, devoting themselves to yoga, resolved to observe the religion of renunciation; Yudhishṭhira first, then the other Pāṇḍavas in the order of their birth, behind them all Draupadī; a dog followed them. They reached the sea of red water. Agni came, and mentioning the Khaṇḍava forest, etc. (a), he caused Arjuna to throw the Gāṇḍīva and his inexhaustible quivers into the water to be given back to Varuṇa. Then Agni disappeared. They now proceeded towards the south; then, by the northern coast of the salt sea, to the south-west; then towards the west, where they saw Dvārakā covered by the ocean; then to the north, observant of yoga, desirous of making a round of the whole earth (XVII, 1). They crossed Himavat, and beheld a vast desert of sand, and then Meru. Kṛṣṇa dropped down; asked by Bhīmasena, Yudhishṭhira said that this was the consequence of her partiality for Arjuna. Then Sahadeva fell down; asked by Bhīmasena, Yudhishṭhira said it was because he never thought anybody his equal in wisdom. They went on. Nakula fell; asked by Bhīmasena, Yudhishṭhira said it was because he thought of nobody equalled him in beauty, though his righteousness was without blemish. Arjuna fell down; asked by Bhīmasena, Yudhishṭhira said that it was because Arjuna had said that he would consume all the foes in a single day, but did not accomplish it. Bhīmasena fell down;