History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.568.4

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(5) Purūravas who thought of dying by hanging or by being devoured by wolves (Rg. X. 95. 14, Śat. Br. XI. 5. 1–8) when separated from Urvaśī; (6) Viśvāmitra, who officiated as priest at the sacrifice of Triśaṅku that had become a cāṇḍāla through a curse (Ādiparva 71. 31–33); (7) Yudhiṣṭhira who took Draupadī as wife although she had been won by his younger brother Arjuna by his skill in archery and who prevaricated in order to bring about the death of his brāhmaṇa teacher Droṇa (Droṇaparva 190. 55); (8) Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana (Vyāsa), who thought himself a perpetual student, procreated by *niyoga* at the request of his mother Satyavatī two sons on the widows of his brother Vicitravīrya; (9) Bhīṣma who lived on without belonging to any (of the four) āśramas and who is said to have performed several Aśvamedhas though he had no wife; (10)