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  2. Niyoga - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] The basic purpose of niyoga is to ensure the continuation of the family lineage and to mitigate the financial and social precariousness that a childless widow would have faced in society. [4] Niyoga was forbidden in the Kali age by Brhaspati and other smrti writers. [5] It has been held that niyoga has nothing to do with polyandry. [6]

  3. Satyavati - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Vidura - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Andhra Mahabharatam - Wikipedia

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    Andhra Mahabharatham ఆంధ్ర మహాభారతం is the Telugu version of Mahabharatha written by the Kavitrayam (Trinity of poets), consisting of Nannayya, Thikkana and Yerrapragada (also known as Errana).The three poets translated the Mahabharata from Sanskrit into Telugu over the period of the 11–14th centuries CE, and became the idols for all the following poets. [1]

  6. Dhritarashtra - Wikipedia

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    According to the Mahabharata, Dhritarashtra’s birth was the result of the ancient practice of Niyoga. After Vichitravirya died childless, his half-brother Vyasa fathered children with Vichitravirya’s widows to continue the Kuru lineage. Dhritarashtra was born blind to Vichitravirya’s elder queen, Ambika.

  7. Vyasa - Wikipedia

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    Vyasa narrating the Mahabharata to Ganesha, his scribe, Angkor Wat Painting depicting Vyasa and the king Janamejaya. Vyāsa is traditionally regarded as the chronicler of this epic and also features as an important character in Mahābhārata.

  8. Kalmashapada - Wikipedia

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    The Mahabharata adds that this act of "giving" his wife to a Brahmin helps Kalmashapada attain heaven. [15] A central character of the epic, King Pandu, who is cursed to die upon having sex with his wife, convinces his wife Kunti to have niyoga with the gods and mother children for him, citing the example of Kalmashapada. [16]

  9. Tikkana - Wikipedia

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    Tikkana (or Tikkana Somayaji) (1205–1288) was a 13th century Telugu poet. Born into a Telugu-speaking Niyogi Brahmin family during the golden age of the Kakatiya dynasty, he was the second poet of the "Trinity of Poets (Kavi Trayam)" that translated Mahabharata into Telugu.