Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1648

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1648

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c7.1648

KAKṢĪVĀN. A son of Maharṣi Gautama. Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva, Chapter 21, Verse 3 states that at the time when Gautama was living in Girivraja, he had connection with a Śūdra woman of Uśīnara land and as a result of it Kākṣīvān was born to her. This Gautama was not the husband of Ahalyā.¹

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit