Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1180
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.1180
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¹ Vyāsa blessed Gāndhārī to have 100 sons. Then how was it that she got a daughter too? On being questioned thus by King Janamejaya Vaiśampāyana replied "when Vyāsa was dividing the mass of flesh a desire to have a daughter entered the heart of Gāndhārī and divining that desire Vyāsa cut the flesh in such a manner as to have one more piece, viz. 101.