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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees …

sa uttarasya tanayām upayema irāvatīm janamejayādīṁś caturas tasyām utpādayat sutān

[SB 1.16.2]

saḥ---he; uttarasya---of King Uttara; tanayām---daughter; upayeme---married; irāvatīm---Irāvatī; janamejaya-ādīn---headed by Mahārāja Janamejaya; caturaḥ---four; tasyām---her; utpādayat---begot; sutān---sons. [break]

Translation...

Prabhupāda: [indistinct] "married"? This is wrong.

Pradyumna: Should be "produced."

Prabhupāda: "Begotten." It should be "begotten." Who has corrected?

[03:09]

Pradyumna: "King Parīkṣit married the daughter of King Uttara and begot four sons, headed by Mahārāja Janamejaya."

Prabhupāda: Hm. Sa uttarasya tanayām. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, his mother's name was Uttarā, Uttarā. Means King Virāṭa, he had two issues---one …

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Abhimanyu was just married and the war was declared. So when Abhimanyu had to go to fight, so he went …

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So immediately she approached Kṛṣṇa, that "I am feeling like that, miscarrying. Please save me." So at that time Kṛṣṇa …

So here Mahārāja Parīkṣit, son of Uttarā, but he married his maternal uncle's daughter. That was permissible. Still it is …

So in that, in the womb of Irāvatī, Mahārāja Parīkṣit begotten four sons. The first one's name is Janamejaya. Ādi. …

[aside:] You can read the Janamejaya paragraph.

Pradyumna: "Janamejaya = One of the rājarṣi kings and the famous son of Mahārāja Parīkṣit. His mother's name is Irāvatī, …

Prabhupāda: Yes. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was cursed by a brāhmaṇa boy, not even twelve years old. When he heard that his …