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vedijā

vedi—jā f. ‘altar-born’, epithet of Draupadī, wife of the Pāṇḍu princes (the fee which Droṇa required for instructing the Pāṇḍu princes was that they should conquer Drupada, king of Pañcāla, who had insulted him; they therefore took him prisoner, and he, burning with resentment, undertook a sacrifice to procure a son who might avenge his defeat; two children were then born to him from the midst of the altar, out of the sacrificial fire, viz. a son Dhṛṣṭa-dyumna, and a daughter Draupadī or Kṛṣṇā, afterwards wife of the Pāṇḍavas), [L.]