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, Tara sired or mothered child named Budha ( God of Mercury ) through Chandra ( Soma ).

# 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 tradition, the Haryanka dynasty founded the Magadha Empire in 684 BC, whose capital was Rajagriha, later Pataliputra, near the present day Patna.

According to tradition, the Shishunaga dynasty founded the Magadha Empire in 430 BC, whose capital was Rajagriha, later Pataliputra, near the present day Patna in India.

According to several legends, Chanakya traveled to Magadha, a kingdom that was large and militarily powerful and feared by its neighbors, but was insulted by its king Dhana Nanda, of the Nanda Dynasty.

According to Taranātha, the Prajñaptivādins continued to flourish in Magadha through the Pāla dynasty, as late as the 10th century CE.

According to Mitchener, the Hathigumpha inscription indicates the presence of the Greeks led by a " Demetrius " in eastern India ( Magadha ) during the 1st century BC, although this interpretation was previously disputed by Narain.

According to the Hathigumpha inscription near Bhubaneswar, Orissa, he attacked Rajagriha in Magadha, thus inducing the Indo-Greek king Demetrius to retreat to Mathura.

According to Puranic geography ( Bhuvanakosa list of ancient countries ), the Kamboja and Gandhara Mahajanapadas of the Buddhist traditions fell in the Udichya ( northern ), the Assaka in Dakshinapatha, Avanti in Aparanta ( western ), the Vajji, Malla, Anga and Magadha in Prachya ( eastern ) and the remaining eight of the Mahajanapadas in the Madhyadesa division.

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1434 of them in Sakhalin Island.

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to Josephus, he then reaffirmed the rights and freedoms of all the Jews in the Empire.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1. 25 million Europeans were captured by North African pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.

According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

According to one tradition it was Mani himself who invented the unique version of the Syriac script called Manichaean script, which was used in all of the Manichaean works written within the Persian Empire, whether they were in Syriac or Middle Persian, and also for most of the works written within the Uyghur Empire.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

According to Pamuk it was a defining character of cultural works from Istanbul after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

According to his dream the tree, which was Osman's Empire, issued four rivers from its roots, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Nile and the Danube.

According to one story that first appeared in a 1475 posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 apparition of Halley's Comet, believing it to be an ill omen for the Christian defenders of Belgrade from the besieging armies of the Ottoman Empire.

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1. 25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.

According to the laws of the feudal system of the Holy Roman Empire, the king had no claims on the vassals of the other princes, only on those living within his family's territory.

According to some opinions, the southern part of Bessarabia remained under the influence of the First Bulgarian Empire until to the end of the 9th century.

According to the census data of the Russian Empire, during the 19th century the ethnic Romanians decreased from 86 % ( 1817 ) to 47. 6 % ( 1897 ).

According to tradition, John and the other Apostles remained some 12 years in this first field of labor, until the persecution of Herod Agrippa I led to the scattering of the Apostles through the various provinces of the Roman Empire.

According to the chronist Bartholomew of Lucca, he discussed with Rudolph, in general terms at least, of splitting the German Empire into four separate kingdoms-Lombardy, Burgundy, Tuscia and Germany, where Rudolph's kingdom would be made hereditary in addition to himself becoming emperor.

According to Igor Vinogradov, Nicholas and his Minister of Public Education Uvarov spread education through the Empire at all levels.

According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1. 25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary corsairs and sold as slaves in North Africa and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.