Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.522

c7.522

This is the story of the birth of Guṇāḍhya. There is a city called Supratiṣṭhita in the country of Pratiṣṭhāna and there lived a brahmin named Somaśarmā. He had two sons, Vatsa and Gulmaka and a daughter named Śrutārthā. Before long the parents died and Śrutārthā grew up under the protection of her brothers. Kirtisena, brother of Vāsuki, married her by gāndharva rites and Guṇāḍhya was the child born to them.