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Niyoga (Sanskrit: नियोग) was a Hindu practice, primarily followed during the ancient period. It was permitted for the widows or wives who had no child by ...
Vidura was born through Niyoga between the sage Vyasa and Parishrami, a handmaiden to the queens Ambika and Ambalika. Ambika first mated with Vyasa through the niyoga process but kept her eyes closed during the process because his appearance and power frightened her. As a result she gave birth to the blind Dhritarashtra.
Niyogi Brahmin is a Telugu Brahmin subcaste [2] native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, but are spread throughout South India and Maharashtra. [3] [4] The traditional occupations of the Niyogi Brahmins are settled cultivation and priesthood. [5]
In the Mahabharata, Vyasa agreed immediately to the niyoga. In the Devi Bhagavata Purana version, Vyasa initially refused Satyavati's proposal. He argued that Vichitravirya's wives were like his daughters; having niyoga with them was a heinous sin, through which no good could come. As a master of "realpolitik", the hungry-for-grandsons ...
Niyoga, a Hindu tradition; niyog, a term for "coconut" in the Philippines; See also. Niyogi (disambiguation) Niog, a locality in Bacoor near Manila in the Philippines
He is also regarded by the Hindu traditions to be the compiler of the mantras of the Vedas into four texts, as well as the author of the eighteen Purāṇas and the Brahma Sutras. Vyasa is regarded by many Hindus as a partial incarnation ( Sanskrit : अंशावतार , IAST : Aṃśāvatāra ) of Vishnu .
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
And, according to Nagesa, the conclusion that if pravrtti is identified with the universal Dharma it can be properly called Apurva, is the view adopted by Prabhakara who holds that the meaning of verbal endings is karya, and niyoga (obligation) is the very karya that prompts a man to fulfil itself .