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180 of wind); and Dhananjaya (Arjuna) blessed with good fortune and the first of all wielders of weapons, of Indra; and Nakula and Shahadeva, of handsome features and ever engaged in the service of their superiors, were born of the twin Aswinas. And unto the wise Dhrita-rashtra were born an hundred sons, viz, Duryodhana and others, and (in addition to the hundred) another, named Yuyutsu who was born of a Vaisya woman. And amongst those hundred and one, eleven, viz, Dush-shasana, Durmarshana, Vikarna, Chitrasena, Vivingsati, Jaya, Satyavrata, Purumitra, and Yuyutsu by a Vaisya wife, were all Maharathas (first class charioteers.) And Avimanyu was born of Suvadra, the sister of Vāsudeva, by Arjuna, and was therefore the grandson of the illustrious Pandu. And unto the five Pandavas were born five sons by (their common wife) Panchali (Draupadi.) And these princes were all very handsome and conversant with all branches of knowledge. From Yudhish-thira was born Pritivindhya; from Vrikodara, Suta-soma; from Arjuna, Sruta-kirti; from Nakula, Shatanika; and from Sahadeva, Sruta-sena of great prowess. And Bhima, in the forest, begat in Hidimvā a son named Ghatotkacha. And from Drupada was born a daughter Shikhandi who was afterwards transformed into a male by a Yaksha named Shuna for his own purposes.

"In that great battle of the Kurus came hundreds and thousands of monarchs for fighting against each other. The names of that innumerable host I am unable to recount even in ten thousand years. I have named, however, the principal ones who have been mentioned in this history (of the Bharata.)"

And so ends the sixty-third Section in the Adivansavatarana of the Adi Parva.