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[ Tapas-kshetra because Kuru, the common ancestor of the rival houses, performed his ascetic austerities there. Since Kuru’s time, many ascetics took up their abode there.]
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[ Some texts have Duddharsham for Durddharshas.]
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[ Literally, “gives heat”.]
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[ ‘Varna’ is used here in the sense of races and not castes.]
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[ This sloka is variously read. For bhauman in the first line some texts read bhimam which I have adopted. For sahasa in the second line some texts have rajasa, and then aditye (locative) for ‘adityas’.]