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charvaka in mahabharat ????

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I have read that yudhishtira burnt charvaka becouse he was an atheist. Does somebody knows in wich parva, wich adhyaaya and wich shloka's this story is told?

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Shanti parva of mahabharata XI.I.120ff After the great Kurukshetra war when the pandava brothers were returning triumphantly thousands of brahmanas gathered at the city-gate to bestow blessing on Yudhisthara.Among them was chrvaka.he moved forward and without the consent pof the rest of the Brahmanas, addressed the King thus: "This assembly of the... you should die" ...other brahmanas regained their senses...and tey burnt the charvaka.( collected from the book:Lokayata:Astudy in Ancient IndianMaterialismby Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya(Ppls Pub Hse.)

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