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.s9.410.6

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Meanwhile *Dāruka* came and informed the *Pāndavas* of the slaughter of the *Vrishnis*, etc. (ι). *Arjuna* with *Dāruka* proceeded to *Dvārakā*; when *Krishna's* 16,000 wives saw *Arjuna*, they uttered a loud cry; the city seemed to *Arjuna* to be the fierce river *Vaitaranī*; *Arjuna*, *Satyā* (the daughter of *Satrājit*), and *Rukminī* fell down and wailed; then praising *Krishna* and comforting the ladies, *Arjuna* went to *Vasudeva* (XVI, 5), whom he found lying on the ground and burning with grief; *Vasudeva* lamented (κ) and said he would die by abstaining from food (XVI, 6). *Arjuna* said that the hour had come for the *Pāndavas* also for departing [from the world] (λ); he would, however, first remove to *Indraprastha* the women, the children, and the aged of the *Vrishnis*. Saying to *Dāruka* that he wished to see the chief officers of the *Vrishnis*, *Arjuna* entered the hall of the *Yādavas* called *Sudharmā*, where he said to the citizens and ministers that he would take away with him the remnants of the *Vrishnis* and *Andhakas*, as the sea would soon engulf the city; *Vajra* would be their king at *Indraprastha*; they would set out on the seventh day at sunrise. *Arjuna* passed that night in the mansion of *Krishna*. At dawn *Vasudeva* by *yoga* attained to the highest goal; the ladies were in despair. His four wives, *Devakī*, *Bhadrā*, *Rohinī*, and *Madirā*, ascended the faneral pyre, and attained to the regions of *Vasudeva*.