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Mbh.3.2.137	So should a person leading a domestic life give a share of his food to Yatis and Brahmacharins that have renounced cooking for themselves.
Mbh.3.25.1182	And the illustrious king, that bull of the Kuru race, set himself to please all the Yatis and Munis and the principal Brahmanas in that forest, by offerings of excellent fruits and roots.
Mbh.3.30.1435	Yatis and Sannyasins and mendicants of domestic lives have always been fed in thy house from off plates of gold where I have distributed food amongst them.
Mbh.3.92.4959	Vaisampayana continued, And thereupon oppressed with grief, the citizens and the principal Brahmanas and Yatis set out for Hastinapura.
Mbh.3.162.8232	And, O best of the Kurus, it is the Yatis only who have access to it.
Mbh.3.162.8234	There by reverence, and severe austerities, Yatis inspired by virtue of pious practices, attain Narayana Hari.
Mbh.3.313.15583	And all those foremost of Yatis and Munis versed in the Vedas, exceedingly desirous of again beholding the Pandavas, went back to their homes.
Mbh.9.43.3095	The diverse gods, Indra and Vishnu, both of great energy, and Surya and Candramas, and Dhatri, and Vidhatri, and Vayu, and Agni, and Pushan, and Bhaga, and Aryaman, and Ansa, and Vivaswat, and Rudra of great intelligence, and Mitra, and the eleven Rudras, the eight Vasus, the twelve Adityas, the twin Ashvinis, the Viswedevas, the Maruts, the Saddhyas, the Pitris, the Gandharvas, the Apsaras, the Yakshas, the Rakshasas, the Pannagas, innumerable celestial Rishis, the Vaikhanasas, the Valakhilyas, those others among Rishis that subsist only on air and those that subsist on the rays of the Sun, the descendants of Bhrigu and Angiras, many high-souled Yatis, all the Vidyadharas, all those that were crowned with ascetic success, the Grandsire, Pulastya, Pulaha of great ascetic merits, Angiras, Kasyapa, Atri, Marichi, Bhrigu, Kratu, Hara, Prachetas, Manu, Daksha, the Seasons, the Planets, and all the luminaries; O monarch, all the rivers in their embodied forms, the eternal Vedas, the Seas, the diverse tirthas, the Earth, the Sky, the Cardinal and Subsidiary points of the compass, and all the Trees, O king, Aditi the mother of the gods, Hri, Sri, Swaha, Sarasvati, Uma, Sachi, Sinivali, Anumati, Kuhu, the Day of the new moon, the Day of the full Moon, the wives of the denizens of heaven, Himavat, Vindhya, Meru of many summits, Airavat with all his followers, the Divisions of time called Kala, Kashtha, Fortnight, the Seasons, Night, and Day, O king, the prince of steeds, Ucchaisravas, Vasuki the king of the Snakes, Aruna, Garuda, the Trees, the deciduous herbs, and the adorable god Dharma, all came there together.
Mbh.12.37.1982	He learnt the duties in full of the Yatis from the lips of Markandeya.
Mbh.12.65.3607	That king who on every occasion honours those that are foremost among men and those that are foremost among Yatis, attains, O son of Kunti, to the object of the Vanaprashtha mode of life.
Mbh.12.153.9275	Resorted to also by Brahmanas crowned with ascetic success, by others engaged in penances, and by Yatis devoted to contemplation this thy region, I think, resembles heaven itself
Mbh.12.261.15891	Thus said those high-souled Rishis and Yatis conversant with the truths of all things, having ascertained by their ascetic power that king Nahusha had not been intentionally guilty of that sin
Mbh.12.261.15899	Even this course of conduct, which is consistent with reasons, is followed by Yatis.
Mbh.12.268.16360	SECTION CCLXIX Kapila said, Beholding that all the fruits that are attainable by acts are terminable instead of being eternal, Yatis, by adopting self-restraint and tranquillity, attain to Brahma through the path of knowledge.
Mbh.12.268.16478	Thinking in this strain and beholding these faults through the aid of instructions secured from preceptors, Yatis, who covet the highest end, betake themselves to Yoga, leaving both good and ill
Mbh.12.301.18859	Bhishma said, Listen now to what the subtile principles are of the followers of the Sankhya doctrine have been established by all the great and puissant Yatis having Kapila their first.
Mbh.12.301.18889	Truly understanding gunas by the aid of hundreds of gunas, hundreds of faults, and diverse causes by hundreds of causes, ascertaining that the world is like the froth of water, enveloped by hundreds of illusions flowing from Vishnu, like a painted edifice, and as unsubstantial as a reed, beholding it to be as terrible as a dark pit, or as unreal as bubbles of water, for the years that compose its age are as shortlived compared to the duration of eternity as bubbles, seeing it exposed to immediate destruction, bereft of happiness, having certain ruin for its end and from which it can never escape, sunk in Rajas and Tamas, and utterly helpless like an elephant sunk in mire, noting all this, the Sankhyas, O king, endued with great wisdom, casting off all affections arising from one's relation towards one's children, by the aid, O king, of that extensive and all-embracing knowledge which their system advocates and cutting off quickly, with the weapon of knowledge and the bludgeon of penances, O Bharata, all inauspicious scents born of Rajas and all scents of a like nature arising from Tamas and all auspicious scents arising from Sattwa and all pleasures of the touch and of the other senses born of the same three qualities and inhering to the body, indeed, O Bharata, aided by the Yoga of knowledge, these Yatis crowned with success, cross the Ocean of life.
Mbh.12.301.18927	There attachments all destroyed, possessed of energy, endued with wealth of penances, and crowned with success, these Yatis, O Bharata, are born by that wind which is subtile, cooling, fragrant, and delicious to the touch, O Bharata!
Mbh.12.301.18941	If, having attained to this high state, the Yatis continue to live in consciousness, it would seem.
Mbh.12.301.18988	Lording it over the celestials as they will, they fall, upon the expiration of the allotted period, among learned Brahmanas and Yatis
Mbh.12.302.18999	Highly-blessed Rishis and Yatis of high souls do the same.
Mbh.12.306.19273	Hence, O great king, the foremost of Yatis say that the Soul is the Presider.
Mbh.12.315.19684	In consequence, again, of his being the witness of everything, and in consequence also of there being nothing else than he, as also for his consciousness of identity with Prakriti, Yatis crowned with ascetic success, conversant with Adhyatma, and freed from fever of every kind, regard him as existing by himself without a second, immutable, unmanifest in the form of Cause, unstable, and manifest in the form of effects.
Mbh.12.318.19958	Installing his son in the sovereignty of the Videhas, the old king began to live, adopting the practices of the Yatis.
Mbh.12.320.20081	Other, viz Yatis, endued with subtile vision, hold that acts constitute the means.
Mbh.12.320.20309	With Yatis, among all orders of men, the custom is to dwell in uninhabited or deserted abodes.
Mbh.12.347.23173	The thoughts of the denizen of all the worlds including Brahma and the high-souled Rishis, of those that are Sankhyas and Yogins, of those that are Yatis, and of those, generally, that are conversant with the Soul are fully known to Kesava, but none of these can know what is thoughts are.
Mbh.12.348.23189	The end that is attained by Brahmanas, who, attending to due observances, study the Vedas with the Upanishads according to the rules laid down for regulating such study, and by those that adopt the religion of Yatis, is inferior, I think, to that attained by persons devoted to Hari with their whole souls.
Mbh.12.348.23268	The religion which is followed and practised by the Yatis, has, O best of kings, been narrated to thee before this in the Hari Gita, with all its ordinances in brief.
Mbh.12.348.23301	Those persons that are endued with wisdom, that have betaken themselves to the practices of Yatis and the religion of Emancipation, those persons of quenched thirst, always find that Hari favours them with the fruition of their desire
Mbh.12.348.23321	Even thus did the highly-blessed Narada explain to my preceptor, the Island-born Krishna, the eternal and immutable course, called Ekanta, ending in One followed by the Whites as also by the yellow-robed Yatis.
Mbh.12.353.23614	Beholding also that the Yatis depend for their sustenance upon alms obtained in course of their rounds of mendicancy, I have no respect for the religion of the Yatis as well.
Mbh.13.16.1593	Thou art the giver of that Nirvana which, O puissant one, Yatis, standing in fear of birth and death, strive for so hard.
Mbh.13.26.3580	What man is there that would not seek the protection of Ganga whose protection is sought for by forest recluses and householders, and by Yatis and Brahmacharins alike?
Mbh.13.90.8096	They are Yatis and those that are conversant with the religion of Moksha, and they that are devoted to Yoga, and they that properly observe excellent vows and they that, with collected mind recite sacred histories unto foremost of Brahmanas.
Mbh.14.92.4303	There were also Yatis and Bikshus among them, O king.
Mbh.15.26.1043	He was an observer of the duties of Yatis.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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