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From the epics · 1 telling · contested
Madri calls the Ashvins: the birth of Nakula and Sahadeva
Madri, childless, asks Pandu to ask Kunti to share her invocation.
Origin · 2 tellings · contested
Yami's grief and the making of night
Yami cannot stop mourning Yama because there is only day; the gods create night so that a morrow can come.