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.s9.410.2

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The fact was reported to the king [Ugrasena], who caused it to be reduced into powder and thrown into the sea. At the command of Āhuka, etc. (β), the manufacture of spirits was forbidden among all the Vṛṣhṇis and Andhakas, under the penance of being impaled alive with all one's kinsmen. All the citizens (knowing that it was the command of Rāma also) bound themselves by the rule (XVI, 1). [The embodied form of] Time every day wandered about their houses, like a man of terrible and fierce aspect, bald head, black and tawny of complexion; they shot innumerable arrows at him, without being able to pierce him. Also other dreadful portents of calamity were daily seen by the Vṛṣhṇis throughout the city (description). They showed disregard for brahmans, P., and D., etc., except Rāma and Kṛṣhṇa, etc. When the Pāñcajanya was blown in their houses, asses brayed aloud from every direction. Kṛṣhṇa, seeing that the day of the new moon coincided with the 13th [and 14th] lunation, summoned the Yādavas and said: The 14th lunation has been made the 15th by Rāhu once more, as at the time of the great battle of the *Bharatas* (v. the note of PCR. on p. 5). He understood that the 36th year had come according to the curse of *Gāndhārī*, and that the omens were similar to those which *Yudhishthira* had noticed when the two armies were arrayed in order of battle. He endeavoured to bring about those occurrences which would make *Gāndhārī's* words true.