Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.60

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5) Other information.
(1) Dakṣa has another name 'Kan'. "Dakṣa the Prajāpati is a son of ten fathers. He has two names. They are Dakṣa and Kan." (M.B. Śānti Parva, Chapter 208, Stanza 7).
(2) When the emperor Pṛthu milked the earth, Dakṣa was crowned as the King of the subjects. (See under Pṛthu).
(3) It occurs in Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva, Chapter 11, Stanza 18, that Dakṣa was a member of the assembly of Brahmā.
(4) Dakṣa was one of those who visited Bhīṣma in his bed of arrows. (M.B. Śānti Parva, Chapter 47).
(5) Mention is made in Mahābhārata, Śānti Parva, Chapter 166 that the devas, the manes, the gandharvas, the celestial maids, the Rākṣasas, animals and birds, fishes and all living creatures were born from the daughters of Dakṣa.