Till 1972, Lion was the national animal of India. Later on it was replaced by the Tiger.The tiger was adopted as the National Animal by the Indian Board for Wildlife in 1972 in place of the lion.
VEDIK GYAN
Vyasa is the legendary author of the Mahabharata, Vedas and Puranas. He is also called Veda Vyāsa, Vyasam Bhagwan or Krishna Dvaipāyana. The festival of Guru Purnima is dedicated to him.
Parents : Satyavati, Parashara
Veda Vyasa was Born to Maharshi Parasara and Satyavati ( daughter of King of Fisher men)
Spouse : Pinjalaa
Veda Vyasa Krishna Dvaipayana was the father of Pandu and Dhritarashtra is also the father of Vidura, Veda Vyasa is the title and the name is Krishna Dvaipaayana just as in Dr X (name) Dr is the title and X is the name.
He was named Krishna because he was born black, and since he was born in an island, he was named Dvaipaayana.
All the three (Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura) were the illegitimate sons of Veda Vyasa. While Dhritarashtra was conceived by Ambika, Pandu was conceived by her younger sister Ambalika. Both Ambikaa and Ambaalikaa are daughters of Kaashya, the king of Kaashi (Varanasi or Benares).
Dhritarashtra was born blind because Ambika, having been frightened of Veda Vyasa’s appearance, shut her eyes completely during copulation with Veda Vyasa
Veda Vyasa had to repeat the performance with Ambalika. seeing the fearsome appearance of Vyasa, Ambaalikaa turned pale during the niyoga act .
So the conceived child was born pale and he was named Pandu.
Since the previous two processes did not produce the desired result, that is one normal healthy heir to the throne, Veda Vyasa was summoned for the third time by Satyavati.
Ò Ambika agreed to go through the ordeal again. But, at the last moment, she could not muster sufficient courage to face Veda Vyasa. So, she sent her maidservant in her place. The maid had intercourse with Veda Vyasa in full attention and with full devotion. The result was the birth of a normal child with no disability. That child was named Vidura who grew up to be a replica of Dharma (righteousness) as predicted by Veda Vyasa.
Now the person behind all these arrangements was none other than Satyavati (royal mother, mother of the deceased Vichitraveerya and mother-in-law of Ambika and Ambalika) whose first son was Veda Vyasa who too was illegitimate. Now Satyavati had summoned Veda Vyasa to impregnate the issueless two widowed queens (of Vichitraveerya) Ambika and Ambalika in order to obtain a legal heir to the Hastinapura throne.
LEARN Sanskrit-विकृत : रूप बिगाड़ा हुआ deformed
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