Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.808

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“Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu and the wise Vidura
The three were brought up as sons by Bhīṣma,
They became well educated, cultured aud devotional,
Respectful towards vows and fasts, and
of good physique, earnest in work
And they became valiant youths.
Learned the Vedas and Veda of archery,
Clubbing, shield and swords play,
Elephant-keeping, laws of chastisement,
Veda śāstras, allied works and epics and the Purāṇas,
Pāṇḍu came out expert archer,
Dhṛtarāṣṭra the strongest of all.
None in the three worlds was equal to Vidura,
In wisdom and knowledge and righteousness.”
(M.B.Ādi Parva, Chapter 109).