vicitravīrya | विचित्रवीर्य | vicitravIrya
vi-citra—vīrya | वि-चित्र—वीर्य | m. ‘of marvellous heroism’, N. of a celebrated king of the lunar race (the son of Śāṃtanu by his wife Satya-vatī, and so half-brother of Bhīṣma; when he died childless, his mother requested Vyāsa, whom she had borne before her marriage to the sage Parāśara, to raise up issue to Vicitra-vīrya; so Vyāsa married the two widows of his half-brother, Ambikā and Ambālikā, and by them became the father of Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu; cf. IW. 375; 376), MBh.; Hariv.; Pur.