The History of Indian Literature c8.357

c8.357

[^asterisk]: The country of the Madras lies in the north-west, and is therefore remote from the country of the Kurus. According to the Mahá-Bhárata, however, Mádrí, second wife of Páṇḍu and mother of the two youngest Páṇḍavas, Nakula and Sahadeva, was a native of this region, and Paríkshit also had a Mádravatí to wife.