Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.83

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cannot ask her rival, through her angry pride towards her, Pāṇḍu, she says, must beg her to get offspring for her (Mādrī), too. He then exhorted Kuntī to do this, and she said to her fellow-wife 1: “Think only once of the divinity. He will grant thee the gift of fitting offspring.” Mādrī called up the two Açvins, and so got the twins Nakula and Sahadeva. Of the father thus blessed the pious and noble Vidura (i, 127.4) then said that he was not to be pitied, but to be praised.