According to Puranas, Daksha had 24 daughters from his wife Prasuti and another 60 from his wife Panchajani ( Virini ).

According to the Mahabharat and the Puranas, Draupadi was regarded as the most beautiful and virtuous of all women at the time.

According to the Puranas, Lord Vishnu stayed on the earth for some time in the Avatar of Swetha Varaham and rose out of pushkarini as Swayambhuva.

According to the Puranas, Lord Vishnu raised in the Avatar of Swetha Varaham from Pushkarini.

According to the Puranas the Guptas ruled over territories ( referred to as Janapadas ) such as Prayag ( Allahabad ), Saket ( Oudh ) and Magadh ( south Bihar ).

According to the Puranas, the Magadha Empire was established by the Brihadratha Dynasty, who was the sixth in line from Emperor Kuru of the Bharata dynasty through his eldest son Sudhanush.

# According to the Puranas, on this day Surya ( Sun ) visits the house of his son Shani ( Saturn ), who is the lord of the Makar rashi ( Zodiac Capricorn ).

According to the Puranas, they were named after Taksha and Pushkara, the two sons of Bharata, a prince of Ayodhya.

According to the Puranas, Shakti worshipped Shiva in the form of a peacock, which is why the vernacular name Mylai () was given to the area that developed around the temple-mayil is Tamil for " peacock ".

According to the Puranas, during the meeting of Brahma and Shiva at top of Mount Kailash Brahma failed to show the due respect to Shiva.

According to the Puranas, this country is known as Bharatavasha after the king Bharata Chakravarti.

According to the Puranas, Shishunaga was succeeded by his son Kakavarna and according to the Sinhala chronicles by his son Kalashoka.

According to the Puranas, the genealogy of the 7th Manu, Vaivasvata is as follows:

According to the Mahabharata and the Puranas, he was the eldest of the five sons of Vasu, the Kuru king of Chedi and his queen Girika.

According to the Hindu scriptures known as the Puranas, Kayasthas are descended from Chitragupta Maharaj, the deity responsible for recording the deeds of humanity, upholding the rule of law and judging whether human beings go to heaven or hell upon death.

According to the Puranas, Ayodhya was the capital of Kosala during the reign of Ikshvaku and his descendants.

According to some interpretations of the Puranas, the Satavahana family belonged to the Andhra-jati (" tribe ") and was the first Deccanese dynasty to build an empire in daksinapatha ( southern region ).

According to the Puranas he was succeeded by Devavarman.

According to the Puranas, he was the successor of Salisuka Maurya and reigned for seven years.

According to the Puranas, he was the successor of Devavarman Maurya and reigned for eight years.

According to the Puranas this yuga ended at the moment when Krishna returned to his eternal abode of Vaikuntha.

According to the Puranas and other sources, they reigned for 112 years.

According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas, as depicted in epic Mahabharata.

According to the Mahabharata, a number of Puranas and the Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga Kingdom.

* According to the Annals of Inisfallen, a royal meeting between Feidlimid mac Cremthanin, King of Cashel and Niall, King of the Southern Uí Neill and Tara at Cluain-Conaire-Tommain, results in Feidlimid becoming High-King of Ireland.

According to The Expulsion of the Déisi, another legendary High King, Cormac mac Airt, lived on the hill of Achall after he lost an eye, his physical imperfection meaning he could no longer rule at Tara.

According to The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, he would burn Tara to the ground every year at Samhain with his fiery breath after lulling all the inhabitants to sleep with his music.

According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

According to an entry in the Annals of the Four Masters for AD 123, there were five principal highways () leading to Tara () in Early Medieval Ireland.

According to the art historian Lawrence Stone ( writing before the discovery of the Derrynaflan Hoard ): " Here the Irish artist has shown a capacity for classical restraint by a deliberate decision to prevent the ornamentation from spreading so copiously as to blur the proportions ... contrasting markedly with the lavish ornamental spread of the almost contemporary Tara Brooch and the still more elaborate systems of the later period.

According to Venerable Tripitaka Master Bhikshu Shramana Hsuan Hua's " Shurangama Mantra Commentary " ( Buddhist Text Translation Society of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 1981, Volume 1 ), the Shurangama Mantra mystically and literally includes all of the Buddha Dharma in its entirety, and its focus is on the Five Dhyana Buddhas ( Vairochana, Amitabha ), Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, with stress on Vairochana and Ashobhya Buddhas ) and their retinues of Dharmapalas and wrathful deities in male and female forms, such as Vajrapani, wrathful Manjushri, Mahakala, Tara, Pandaravasini, Prakruti, Uchushma Fire Head Vajra, Brahma, Indra, Shiva as Rudra, Raudri-Umapati form of Vajrayogini, Narayana, Ganapati, various Dhakinis, Naga kings, Yaksha kings, Rakshasha kings, and many other Dharma Protectors of the Buddhist Pantheon and Vedic pantheon.

According to the Telos novella Frayed by Tara Samms ( a pen name for Stephen Cole ), which takes place prior to the serial An Unearthly Child, Jill, a young girl in a besieged human medical facility on the planet Iwa, meets and named the Doctor's granddaughter Susan, after Jill's mother.

According to this account the Lia Fáil left Tara in AD 500 when the High King of Ireland Murtagh MacErc loaned it to his brother Fergus ( later known as Fergus the Great ) for the latter's coronation in Scotland.

According to Ngāi Tai tradition, Te Puke Ō Tara and Ōtara are named after the Ariki ( Paramount Chief ) of Ngāi Tai known as Tara Te Irirangi, who lived from the late 18th Century until 1852.

According to Martin Dillon, Stone also held membership of Tara, a anti-Catholic and anti-communist organisation led by William McGrath, a close associate of RHC leader John McKeague.

According to the later Irish historians, Diarmait was followed as King of Tara by Domnall Ilchegalch and Forguss, sons of Muirchertach mac Ercae, of the Cenél nEógain.

According to the Kalasan inscription, dated 778 CE and written in the Pranagari script in Sanskrit, the Kalasan temple was erected by the will of Guru Sang Raja Sailendravamçatilaka ( the Jewel of the Sailendra family ), who persuaded Panangkaran ( Sanjaya's successor ) to construct a holy building for the goddess ( boddhisattvadevi ) Tara and build a vihara ( monastery ) for Buddhist monks from the Sailendra realm.

According to a Kalasan inscription dated 778 AD, written in Sanskrit using Pranagari script, the temple was erected by the will of Guru Sang Raja Sailendravamçatilaka ( the Jewel of Sailendra family ) that succeed to persuade Maharaja Tejapurnapana Panangkaran ( in other part of the inscription also called as Kariyana Panangkaran ) to construct a holy building for the goddess ( boddhisattvadevi ) Tara and also build a vihara ( monastery ) for buddhist monks from Sailendra family's realm.

According to the Kalasan inscription, the temple once houses the large ( probably reaching 4 meters tall ) statue of the Boddhisattvadevi Tara.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

According to some sources, it was he rather than Typhon that sired, with Echidna, further chthonic monstrous creatures: the Chimera, the Sphinx, the Lernaean Hydra, and even, Hesiod says, the Nemean lion, and Cerberus.

According to Tolkien, he sired the rest of his race, or at least the brood of Urulóki, wingless fire-breathing dragons.

According to quotes found in Akilam, they had a male child, who was sired by her first husband.

According to the Vedas, Brahma created Vashista who with Arundhati had a son named Shakti-muni who sired Parāśara.