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Updated: July 21, 2025

Let me tell you that I have even rejected the solicitations of that best of Brahmarshis the celestial sage Asita who, too, had often asked for Satyavati's hand in marriage. I have only one word to say on the part of this maiden. In the matter of the proposed marriage there is one great objection founded on the fact of a rival in the person of a co-wife's son.

- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose : Adi Parva

Then the old woman got very angry and cursed the queen, saying, "You will become half a frog and half a human being, and you will stand outside your co-wife's bath-room and croak like a frog." But the queen did not mind her the least little bit, and she laughed so loud at the old woman that the noise was like two chains rattling together.

C. A. (Charles Augustus) Kincaid - Deccan Nursery Tales : or, Fairy Tales from the South

Let me tell you that I have even rejected the solicitations of that best of Brahmarshis the celestial sage Asita who, too, had often asked for Satyavati's hand in marriage. I have only one word to say on the part of this maiden. In the matter of the proposed marriage there is one great objection founded on the fact of a rival in the person of a co-wife's son.

- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1: Books 1, 2 and 3