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भीष्मसत्यवतीसंवाद (bhISmasatyavatIsaMvAda)

 
Mahabharata
English
Bhīshma-Satyavatī-saṃvāda(ḥ) (“conversation of Bhº and S.”). § 168 (cf. Vicitravīryoparama): Satyavatī in vain asked Bhīshma to ascend the throne and marry the widows of Vicitravīrya, in order to propagate the race (I, 103). Bhīshma adduced the examples of Paraśu-Rāma 169) and of Dīrghatamas 170).--§ 171: “Thus many kshattriyas have sprung from the seed of brahmans.” Vyāsa raised offspring in the widows of Vicitravīrya (v. Vicitravīrvasutotpatti, § 171).