Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.108

v1.c5.108

¹ There he is found by Adhiratha, the chariot-driver of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, who takes him to himself as child, and brings him up. The same tale is told earlier, i, 67.129 ff., and shorter i, 111. According to the former, and according to i, 122.35-37, Durvāsas says from the beginning that the purpose of the magic is that Kuntī may get a son from any god she may call up; and we have not to do, as we clearly have in our account, with a begetting without the virginity being destroyed; but we find : “And the god of the brightest splendour gave her back her maidenhead” (i, 111.20). With this xv, 30.16 also agrees. The Brahman of this account was called Durvāsas.