maid-servant of the Vaisya class who used to attend on Dhrita-rashtra. During that year, O king, was begotten upon her by the illustrious Dhrita-rashtra a son endued with great intelligence who was afterwards named Yuyutshu. And because he was begotten by a Kshatriya upon a Vaisya woman, he came to be called a Karana.
"Thus were born unto the wise Dhrita-rashtra an hundred sons who were all heroes and mighty charioteers, and a daughter over and above the hundred, and another son Yuyutshu of great energy and prowess begotten upon a Vaisya woman."
So ends the hundred and fifteenth Section in the Sambhava of the Adi Parva.
( Sambhava Parva continued. )
Janamejaya said, "O sinless one, thou hast narrated to me from the beginning all about the birth of Dhrita-rashtra's hundred sons owing to the boon granted by the Rishi. But thou hast not told me as yet any particulars about the birth of a daughter. Thou hast merely said that over and above the hundred sons, there was another son named Yuyutshu begotten upon a Vaisya woman, and a daughter. The great Rishi Vyasa of immeasurable energy had said unto the daughter of the king of Gandhara that she would become the mother of an hundred sons. Illustrious one; how is it that thou sayest, Gandhari had a daughter over and above her hundred sons? If the ball of flesh had been distributed by the great Rishi only into an hundred parts, and if Gandhari did not conceive on any other occasion, how then was Dushshalā born? Tell me this, O Rishi! My curiosity hath been great."
Vaisampayana said, "O thou descendant of the Pandavas, thy question is just, and I will tell you how it happened. The illustrious and great Rishi himself, by sprinkling water over that ball of flesh, began to divide it into parts. And as it was being divided into parts, the nurse began to take them ud
