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पर्वसङ्ग्रहपर्वन् (parvasaGgrahaparvan)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Parvasaṅgrahaparvan(ºva)], the second of the minor parvans
cf. Parvasaṅgraha. § 8: Sauti related: Rāma (Jāmadagnya), having in the intervals between the Tretā and Dvāpara yugas repeatedly destroyed the warrior caste, formed five lakes of blood at Samantapañcaka, where he offered oblations of blood to the manes of his ancestors, until those pacified him, and his lakes became holy tīrthas (places of pilgrimage).--§ 9: Sauti explained the term akshauhiṇī (an army) and its subdivisions. Eighteen akshauhiṇīs partook of the battle
Bhīshma holding the command for ten days, Droṇa for five, Karṇa for two, Śalya for half a day, the combat between Bhīma and Duryodhana lasting half a day, and the nightly assault of Drauṇi (i.e. Aśvatthāman), Hārdikya (i.e. Kṛtavarman), and Gautama (i.e. Kṛpa) on Yudhishṭhira's army taking place at the end of the same day.--§ 10: Sauti enumerated the 100 smaller parvans, or greater chapters, together with the three parvans of Harivaṃśa (together 103). --§ 11: Sauti enumerated the eighteen books or greater parvans, with Harivaṃśa as the nineteenth, with a summary of their contents, a computation of the number of verses, and renewed praises (I, 2).