Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4982

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and lived there. The sorrowing Vyāsa, was made still more sorrowful by the departure of his beloved disciples, Asita, Devala, Vaiśampāyana, Sumantu, Jaimini and others who had been living in the hermitage and who had departed, having finished their education. All the surroundings of the hermitage seemed to him filled with pain. At last he thought about his mother. (Devī Bhāgavata Skandha 1).