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# Harivamsha 85.7

Harivaṃśa 85.7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [85.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.85.7)

vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca  
vṛṣṇīnām andhakānāṃ ca gurur gārgyo mahātapāḥ  
brahmacārī purā bhūtvā na sma dārān sa vindati //

> Vaiśaṃpāyana said: / “The spiritual teacher of the Vṛṣṇis and Andhakas was Gārgya of great ascetic heat; / having formerly been a chaste student, he did not take a wife.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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