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.s9.308.2

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On the branches lived a cat Lomaça. A Caṇḍāla came and built a hut, setting his traps of leather strings every evening after sunset. One day he caught the cat. Palita began to eat the flesh in the trap, but beheld the mongoose Harita and the owl Candraka. He resolved upon saving the cat, though an enemy, in order to escape from them; having made peace with the cat, he crouched beneath it; the mongoose and owl left the spot; the mouse began to cut the strings slowly, notwithstanding the cat's impatience. At morning the Caṇḍāla Parigha appeared (description), accompanied by a pack of dogs. Then the mouse quickly cut the remaining string; the cat got upon the banyan, Palita entered his hole. The hunter took up his net and left the spot. Palita would not conclude friendship with the cat, and entered another hole. Mārkaṇḍeya, a Brahmarshi. § 264 (Sabhākriyāp.): II, 4a, 110 (mahāmuniḥ, waited upon Yudhishṭhira).—§ 270 (Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11, 439 (in the palace of Yudhishṭhira).—§ 323 (Dvaitavanapr.): III, 25, †948 (came to the Pāṇḍavas in the wood), (†952) (consoled Yudhishṭhira by relating the banishment of Rāma Dāçarathi).—§ 327 (Draupadī-paritāp.): III, 31, 1170 (dharmena cirajīvitā; all. to § 323).—§ 370 (Tīrthayātrā.): III, 84, 8058 (°sya . . . tīrtham . . . Gomatī-Gaṅgayoḥ caiva saṅgame).—§ 376 (do.): III, 85, 8268 (among the ṛshis who expected Yudhishṭhira).—§ 377 (Dhaumyatīrthak.): III, 88, 8330 (at Payoshṇī M. sang a genealogical verse (auvaṃçyam . . .