Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2461

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2461

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SUDHANVĀ II. Son of hermit Aṅgiras. Some information gathered from Ṛgveda and Mahābhārata is given below.
(i) There arose a contest between Sudhanvā and Virocana, the son of Prahlāda for marrying the damsel Keśinī. (For detailed story see under Keśinī V).
(ii) This hermit visited Bhīṣma in his bed of arrows. (M.B. Anuśāsana Parva, Chapter 26, Verse 7).
(iii) Sudhanvā was the eighth son of Aṅgiras.

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit