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आदिवंशावतारणपर्वन् (AdivaMzAvatAraNaparvan)

 
Mahabharata
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Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇaparvan. § 70: I, 59. (a) Kathābandha: in the intervals of the duties of the snakesacrifice Vyāsa recited Mahābhārata. (b) Kathānubandha. § 70: I, 60. Hearing that Janamejaya was installed in the snake-sacrifice, Kṛshṇa Dvaipāyana went thither (his birth, growth, studies, dividing the Vedas into four parts, and his begetting of Pāṇḍu, etc., are mentioned) with his disciples, and asked by Janamejaya about the Kurus and Pāṇḍavas, he directed his disciple Vaiśampāyana to tell their story. (c) Bhāratasūtram. § 71: I, 61. Vaiśampāyana gives a survey of the history of the Pāṇḍavas. (d) Bhāratapraśaṃsā. § 72: I, 62. Janamejaya wishes to hear the Mahābhārata in full. Vaiśampāyana describes its virtues (v. 2320: Bhāratānaṃ mahaj janma Mahābhāratam ucyate)
Kṛshṇa Dvaipāyana had attained his object in three years, rising daily and purifying himself and performing his ascetic devotions he had composed this Mahābhārata
he that gives away a copy of the Bhārata to one that asks for it does indeed make a present of the whole earth with her belt of seas. Vids Ādivaṃśāvatāraṇa. § 84: I, 64. Jamadagni's son, after having twenty-one times destroyed the kshattriya race, began ascetic penances on the Mahendra mountain. A new kshattriya caste sprang from the kshattriya ladies and the brahmans. Description of the Kṛta yuga. Then the Daityas being repeatedly defeated by the Ādityas and deprived of heaven, the Asuras began to be born on Earth in such numbers that the Earth became incapable of supporting herself, even with the united strength of the Pannagas (bhūtasattvaughaḥ). The Earth then applied to Brahmán, who was surrounded by gods, brahmans, great Ṛshis, Gandharvas, and Apsarases. Brahmán appointed the gods, Gandharvas and Apsarases, to be born on Earth in order to ease her of her burthen by destroying the Asuras. They agreed, and going to Vaikuṇṭha they also prevailed upon Nārāyaṇa to become incarnate.