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.s9.311.1

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[Mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvan(°va)] ("section relating to the [Pāṇḍavas] enjoying the company of Mārkaṇḍeya," the 41st of the minor parvans of Mhbr.). (Cf. Mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyā.) § 451 : When the Pāṇḍavas were dwelling at that very place (cf. v. 12547 : caratām marudhanvasu, "roaming about in deserts"), there set in the season of the rains (description). Then in the autumn (description) they spent the holiest night, that of the full moon in the month of Kārttika, on the Sarasvati with the ascetics. As soon as the dark fortnight set in, they with their charioteers and cooks entered the Kamyaka forest (III, 182).—§ 452 : In the Kamyaka wood many brahmans came to them, and one of them said that Kṛṣṇa and Mārkaṇḍeya would come to see them. Immediately Kṛṣṇa arrived with Satyabhāmā on his chariot that was yoked with Çaibya and Sugrīva. He told Kṛṣṇa that her sons, though her father and brothers proffered them a kingdom and territories, found no joy in the house of Drupada, but that in the town of the Vṛṣṇis they were directed by Subhadra and received instruction from Rukmiṇeya even as Aniruddha, Abhimanyu, Sunitha, and Bhānu, and were instructed by the young Abhimanyu in the use of arms. Then he suggested to Yudhishṭhira with the Daçārhas, Kukuras, and Andhakas, to kill Duryodhana, etc. Yudhishṭhira said they would stand by their promise, and after the thirteen years take refuge in *Kṛṣṇa*.—§ 453: While they were thus talking, the *brahmarshi* Mārkaṇḍeya (*b*) appeared.