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# 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

An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s9.410.7

- **Language:** English

### [c5.s9.410.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s9.410.7)

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\*;

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