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आदिवंशावतारण (AdivaMzAvatAraNa)

 
Mahabharata
English
[Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇa]
(“genealogy”), the fifth chapter of the Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇaparvan (VI) I, 63
it includes: §§ 73--4: Vasu Uparicara and his sons. § 75: Girikā. § 76: Matsya. §§ 77--8: Vyāsa and his pupils. § 79: Bhīshma. § 80: Aṇīmāṇḍavya. § 81: Sañjaya
Karṇa. § 82: Kṛshṇa Vāsudeva. § 83. Birth of Sātyaki (son of Satyaka) and Kṛtavarman (son of Hṛdika) (Nārāyaṇam anuvratau), Droṇa, Kṛpī, Kṛpa, Aśvatthāman, Dhṛshṭadyumna, Kṛshṇā, Nagnajit, and Subala, Śakuni, Gāndhārī, and Dhṛtarāshṭra, Pāṇḍu, and Vidura, and Yudhishṭhira and his brothers, and the 101 sons of Dhṛtarāshṭra (only Duryodhana and the Karaṇa Yuyutsu, born of a Vaiśyā woman, is named), of whom 11 () (including Yuyutsu) are enumerated as mahārathas, and Abhimanyu, and the sons of Pāñcālī (Draupadī or Kṛshṇā) (enumerated) (), and Ghaṭotkaca, and Śikhaṇḍi(n)
“these are only the principal ones of the hundreds of thousands of monarchs who came to fight against each other in that great battle of the Kurus.”
Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇa^2 = ºparvan (B. ādir aṃśāvatāraṇaṃ). § 10 (Parvas.): I, 2, 312.--§ 11 (do.): 2, 860.