Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3529

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6). Vasu goes ahunting. One day the king decided to go to hunt. On the same day his wife had her monthly course. Still without changing his programme he started for the forest. Even after entering the forest the thought of his wife lingered in his mind. The forest was in full bloom as it was Spring. Seeing this the king grew amorous and sat under a tree. A mild breeze was blowing. Instantly the king had seminal flow. He collected the semen in the leaf of a tree and sent it to the queen through an eagle. Thinking that to be some food, another eagle got near and a quarrel arose. The semen fell in the river Yamunā. A fish named Adrikā swallowed it. (See under Adrikā). A fisherman caught that fish. He got a male child and a female child from the stomach of the fish. That girl is the famous Satyavatī Matsyagandhā who became the queen of Śantanu. (See under Satyavatī). The fisherman gave the boy he got from the fish to king Uparicaravasu. (M. B. Ādi Parva Chapter 62).