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.s9.311.6

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Blessing upon the reader.—§ 472: Three kinds of purity (speech, deed, water); by adoring *sandhyā* and reciting *Gāyatrī* one is protected against sin and evil results from gifts, against inauspicious stars, and against *Rākshasas*. Greatness of the *brahmans*. The carrying of three staves, etc., are useless if the heart be not pure. They who do not commit sin in manas, word, deed, and *buddhi* do really practise austerities (v. 13168: *by tapas* one may attain *Svarga*, by charity enjoyment, by knowledge salvation (*moksha*), by bathing in *tirthas* purgation from sins).—§ 473: On the effects of various gifts at various times (v. 13480: the first offspring of fire is gold, earth springs from *Vishṇu*, and the cows from the sun; he, therefore, that gives away gold, land, and kine, has given the three worlds [of *Agni*, *Vishṇu*, and the Sun]) (III, 200).—§ 474: Having heard the history of *Indradyumna*, *Yudhishṭhira*, saying that *Mārkaṇḍeya* knew the gods, *Dānavas*, *Rākshasas*, the royal genealogies and the genealogies of the *ṛshis*, and *Gandharvas*, *Yakshas*, *Kinnaras*, and *Apsarases*, asked him about *Kuvalāçva Ikshvāku*. *Mārkaṇḍeya* related: *Dhundhumāropākhyāna* (q.v.).—§§ 479-87: *Pātivratopākhyāna* (q.v.).—§§ 488-94: *Aṅgirasa* (q.v.).—§§ 495-8: *Skandopākhyāna* (q.v.).—§ 499: *Skanda-Cakra-samāgama* (q.v.).—§§ 500-1: *Skandopākhyāna* (q.v.).—§ 502: *Manushyagrahakathana* (q.v.).—§§ 503-7: *Skandayuddha* (q.v.).—§§ 508-9: *Kārttikeyastava* (q.v.).