[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.4259 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4259 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.4259 - **Language:** English ### [c9.4259](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.4259) 1) \*General information.\* Vidura was a superhuman being, very famous in the story of Mahābhārata, as a brother of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, as a man of colossal intelligence who had been closely watching the goings and comings of the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas, and as the adviser of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and as a man of immense learning and wisdom. - [Previous: c9.4258](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.4258) - [Next: c9.4260](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.4260) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.4259](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.4259) · Pramāṇa