Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.826

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DHRTARĀṢṬRI. A daughter born from Tāmṛā the wife of Kaśyapa Prajāpati. Tāmṛā had five daughters : Krauñcī, Bhāsī, Śyenī, Dhṛtarāṣṭrī and Śuki. Of these, from Krauñcī, the owls, the Bhāsas from Bhāsī, the eagle and vulture from Śyenī, the swans and the ruddy goose from Dhṛtarāṣṭrī were born in the world. (This occurs in Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Araṇya Kāṇḍa, Sarga 14).