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dhṛtarāṣṭra

N. of a Nāga also called Airāvata , AV. ; Br. ; MBh. &c.

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1. dhṛtarāṣṭra

N. of a Nāga also called Airāvata , AV. ; Br. ; MBh. &c.

2. dhṛtarāṣṭra

of a Deva-gandharva sometimes identified with King Dh˚ (below), MBh. (with Buddhists , N. of a king of the Gandharva s and one of the 4 Mahārāja s [ Lalit. ] or Lokapāla s [ Dharmas. vii ] MWB. 206 )

3. dhṛtarāṣṭra

of the eldest son of Vyāsa by the widow of Vicitra-vīrya (brother of Pāṇḍu and Vidura and born blind, husband of Gāndhāri and father of 100 sons of whom the eldest was Dur-yodhana ; sometimes identified with Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Haṃsa , 2 chiefs of the Gandharva s), MBh.

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Sanskrit corpus record built from GRETIL sources (citations and statistics; GRETIL running text is not redistributable). Passage text, where shown, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (CC BY 4.0). Dictionary senses from Monier-Williams (1899, public domain), via the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries.