Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.220
Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.220
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c8.220
"I have heard in the *Purāṇa* that a lady named Jaṭilā, the foremost of all virtuous women belonging to the race of Gotama, had married seven Ṛishis. So also an ascetic's daughter named Vārkshī had in former times united herself in marriage with ten brothers bearing the same name of Prachetā and who were all of souls exalted by asceticism." The polyandrous marriage of the Prachetā brothers is clearly alluded to in the *Matsya* and *Brahma Purāṇas*.