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.s9.410.7

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When *Arjuna* had caused *Vasudeva* and his four wives to be burnt (under immense tokens of sympathy from the women), the boys (headed by *Vajra*) and the ladies offered oblations of water to *Vasudeva*. Then *Arjuna* visited the spot where the *Vrishnis* had been killed and caused the last rites to be performed, and caused *Rāma* and *Krishna* to be cremated. On the seventh day he set out, mounting his chariot, with the ladies and children, the *Yādava* troops, and other inhabitants, with *Krishna's* 16,000 wives and *Vajra*; they numbered many millions in all. Then the ocean flooded *Dvārakā*. They proceeded in slow marches. When they had planted their encampment at *Pañcanada*, thn *Ābhiras* (*Mlecchas*) conspired to rob the cavalcade. *Arjuna* succeeded only with great difficulty in stringing his bow; his celestial weapons would not come to his mind; the *Vrishni* warriors failed to rescue the women, who were snatched away by the robbers; *Arjuna's* shafts soon became exhausted; formerly they were inexhaustible. *Arjuna* became very cheerless; he escorted the remnant of the cavalcade to *Kurukshetra*; he established the son of *Kritavarman* in the city of *Mārttikāvata* with the remnant of the women of the *Bhoja* king; the remainder, with children and old men and women, at *Indraprastha*, with *Vajra* as their ruler; the son of *Yuyudhāna* (with old men, etc.) on the banks of the *Sarasvatī*;