आगमे ब्राह्मे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

It is, moreover, recorded in the (ordinary) world.

There are, moreover, traditions, apart from the Veda, that certain persons like Droṇa, Dhr̥shṭadyumna, Sītā, Draupadī, &c., were not born in the ordinary way from

mothers. In the case of Droṇa and others there was absent the oblation which is made into the woman; while in the case of Dhr̥shṭadyumna and others, even two of the oblations, viz. the one offered into woman and the one offered into man, were absent. Hence in other cases also birth may be supposed to take place independently of the number of oblations.

It is, moreover, commonly known that the female crane conceives without a male.