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.s9.311.5

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"in the new *Kṛta-yuga*, *Kalkin* (*c*) will arise." Then *Mārkaṇḍeya* gave *Yudhishṭhira* some moral precepts and exhortations (III, 190-1).—§ 461: *Vāmadevacarita* (q.v.).—§ 462: *Baka-Cakra-saṃvāda* (q.v.).—§ 463: *Çibi* (q.v.).—§ 464: *Nāhusha-curita* (v. *Yayāti*).—§ 465, on the same topic: There were two learned and able kings, *Vṛshadarbha* and *Seduka*. *Seduka* knew that *Vṛshadarbha* had from his boyhood an unuttered vow, that he would give no other metal to *brahmans* than gold and silver. He once sent a *brahman*, who asked him for 1,000 horses for his preceptor, to *Vṛshadarbha*, who whipped him and then gave him a day's tribute (which was more than the value of 1,000 horses), "because he had whipped him" (III, 196).—§ 466: *Çibi* (q.v.).—§ 467: *Rājyanamahābhāgya* (q.v.).—§ 468: *Indradyumnopākhyāna* (q.v.).—§ 469: Asked by *Yudhishṭhira* in what condition (age) a man should practise charity, *Mārkaṇḍeya* enumerated four kinds of futile life and sixteen kinds of futile charity. The *brahmans* save others and themselves by *japa*, *mantra*, and *homa*. He next enumerated the *brahmans* that should be excluded from *çrāddhas*, and gave other moral precepts (of offerings to the gods of flowers and sandals and pastes, entertainment of guests); then he enumerated the persons to whom one should make gifts; the effects of various gifts to *brahmans* (food is the best).—§ 470: *Yamaloka* (q.v.).—§ 471: Precepts about gifts, washing the feet of *brahmans*, etc.