○parvan n. 'Tranquillizing-section', N. of the 12th book of the Mahā-bhārata (the longest in the whole poem and consisting chiefly of stories, discourses and episodes narrated for the tranquillizing of the troubled spirit of Yudhi-shṭhira after the termination of the war and the slaughter of his relatives)

Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by M. Monier William