आपवोपाख्यान (ApavopAkhyAna)
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Mahabharata
EnglishĀpavopākhyāna (“episode relating to Āpava, i.e. Vasishṭha”). § 164 (cf. Bhīshmotp.): Gaṅgā fully related to Śāntanu the reason why the Brahmarshi Vasishṭha (or Āpava), the son of Varuṇa, had cursed the Vasus. When the Vasus, Pṛthu (or Dhara), etc., were wandering with their wives in the wood near Vasishṭha's hermitage, frequented by the devarshis, Dyaus was prevailed upon by his wife (assisted by his brothers), in the interest of her friend Jitavatī, daughter of Uśīnara, to steal Vasishṭha's homadhenu [Nandinī] (daughter of Kaśyapa and Surabhi, the daughter of Daksha), by drinking whose milk one could remain in unchanged youth for 1, 000 years. Vasishṭha, however, was prevailed upon to let among them Dyaus alone (who was to be conversant with all śāstras, etc.) dwell on earth for a long time without marrying. Then Gaṅgā, taking with her the child (Gāṅgeya or Devavrata, i.e. Bhīshma), went away, and Śāntanu returned to his capital--“I shall now recount the virtues of the Bhārata Śāntanu, whose splendid story is called the Mahābhārata” (I, 99). (For continuation v. Satyavatīlabhop.)
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