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Aspects of Brahmanıcal Influence on the Jaina Mythology
which it contains about some of the immediate forefathers of the Kaurava.Pandava brothers is very important from the standpoint of comparauve study of the Jaina and Brahmanical accounts The UP while introducing the Kauravas and Põndavas, refers to one king Saktı by name as the great-grandfather of Dhrlaraştra, Pāndu and Vidura According to the version, 'lo king Saklı of Hastināpura, chicf among thc Kurus, was born Parāśara from queen Satakı , Hıs (Parāśara's) son was Vjasa of good intellect, by princess Satyavati, born in the family of Mats; a, and to this Vjāsa and Subhadra were born three sons, Dhstarāstra the great, Pandu and Vidura121 (by name)
The pedigree in accordance with the Ullarafurāna version stands thus
Saktı+ Sataki
Parāśara +Satyavati
Vyāsa +Subhadrā
1 Dhstarāstra 2 Pându (3) Vidura
An analysis of the above pedigree in the light of the Brahmanıcal epic-Purānic genealogies of the later Kurus will bring to our notice a very important and interesting fact The Brahmanıcal sources show striking unanimity on the point that the Kuruline after Victravirga would have been extinct122 but for the intervention of Vjāsa who was begotten by the sage Parašara on Satyavati, while the latter was still a maiden 123 We
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तम्ब मत्स्य कुलोत्पन्न राजपुत्र्या सुतोभवत् ।। मत्यवत्या मुघीाम पुनयामसुभद्रयो । धृतराष्ट्रो महान् पाण्डुर्विदुरश्च सुतास्त्रय ।।
UP, 70 101b-103 122 MBh 1 95 72 123 तस्या पूर्व कानीनो गर्भ परामराद् द्वैपायनोऽभवत् ।
MBh 1. 05 49. Also 1 104,3-18
