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.s9.352.1

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[Mātaliyopākhyāna(m)] (“the episode relating to Mātali”). (Cf. *Mātaliyam upākhyānam*.) § 564 (Bhagavady.). The holy Rshi (*bhagavān ṛṣiḥ*) Kaṇva said to Duryodhana in the assembly of the Kurus: Brahmán, the grandsire of the universe (*Lokapitāmahaḥ*), is indestructible and eternal. The holy Rshis (*bhagavantāv ṛṣī*) Nara and Nārāyaṇa are of the same character. Of all the sons of Aditi, *Vishnu* alone is eternal . . . In this connection is cited an old story: *Mātali*, the charioteer of Indra, had, by his wife *Sudharmā*, one beautiful daughter, *Guṇakeçī*. As he found no suitable husband for her amongst D., Dai., G., or men and R., *Mātali* set out for the *Nāgaloka* (V, 97). On the way Nārada, proceeding to visit *Varuṇa*, followed *Mātali*, and first showed him the abode of *Varuṇa*, surrounded by his sons and grandsons. *Varuṇa*’s son *Pushkara* had been chosen as husband by Soma’s daughter *Jyotsnākālī* (who had [before] chosen (so PCR.) the eldest and foremost of *Aditi*’s sons (i.e. Sūrya, Nil.)). He then showed him the abode, entirely made of gold, of the liquor (*Vāruṇyam*): to the possession of that liquor (*surā*) the gods owe their being *Surāḥ*. He showed him also the weapons that had belonged to the *Daityas* and had been obtained by the gods as a booty of war; when hurled at the foe they always return into the hand that hurls them. Here dwelt in days of yore many tribes of Rā. and Dai. Here is that fire of blazing flames and the discus of *Vishnu*;