The Life of Ballālasena 2.10

Vyāsa said:
Time emitted Virāj, and Virāj emitted the Puruṣa;
know that Puruṣa born from the thigh of Virāj to be Manu.

Having emitted creatures indeed, that Prajāpati born of the waters,
the Puruṣa, obtained a wife not born of a womb, Śatarūpā.

From the Vairāja Puruṣa, Śatarūpā gave birth to Vīra;
from Vīra, Kāmyā gave birth to Priyavrata and Uttānapāda.

Kāmyā was the highly fortunate daughter of the Prajāpati Kardama;
and her four sons were Samrāj, Kukṣi, Virāj, and Prabhu.

Having obtained Priyavrata as husband, she gave birth to sons;
and the Prajāpati Atri accepted Uttānapāda as a son.

From Uttānapāda, Sunṛtā gave birth to four sons;
she was the daughter of Dharma, fair-hipped, celebrated as Sunṛtā,

born through a horse sacrifice, the auspicious mother of Dhruva.
Upon Sunṛtā, the Prajāpati Uttānapāda begot
Dhruva, Kīrtimat, Āyuṣmat, and Vasu.

Through austerities, Dhruva attained a station in front of the Seven Sages;
from him was Śliṣṭi, and Bhavya; from Dhruva, Śambhu was born.

From Śliṣṭi, Succhāyā bore five sinless sons:
Ripu, Ripuñjaya, Ripra, Vṛkala, and Vṛkatejas.

From Ripu, Bṛhatī bore the all-splendid Cākṣuṣa;
upon Puṣkariṇī, daughter of Vīraṇa, Cākṣuṣa begot Manu.

Upon the daughter of the high-souled Prajāpati Araṇya,
upon Naḍvalā, ten immensely energetic sons were born to Manu,

the foremost of men, upon the daughter of the Prajāpati Vairāja:
Ūru, Puru, Śatadyumna, the ascetic Satyavāc, Kavi,

Agniṣṭut, Atirātra, and Sudyumna—these nine,
and Abhimanyu as the tenth, born of Naḍvalā, of immense energy.

From Ūru, Āgneyī gave birth to six sons of great radiance:
Aṅga, Sumanas, Svāti, Kratu, Aṅgiras, and Gaya.

From Aṅga, one son, Veṇa, was born upon the daughter Sunīthā;
when the hand of Veṇa was churned, King Pṛthu came into being.

Pṛthu, son of Veṇa, the ancestor of the Kṣatriyas, then protected this earth;
he was the first ruler of the earth among those consecrated by the royal consecration rite.

From him also were born the skilled bard and panegyrist;
and two sons knowing dharma were born to Pṛthu: Antardhi and Pālin.

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Śikhaṇḍinī gave birth to Havirdhāna from Antardhāna;
from Havirdhāna, Āgneyī Dhīṣaṇā gave birth to six sons:

Prācīnabarhis, Śukra, Gaya, Kṛṣṇa, Vraja, and Ajina.
The lord Prācīnabarhis was a great Prajāpati.

The lord took a wife in the daughter of the Ocean;
Suvarṇā, daughter of the Ocean, bore ten sons to Prācīnabarhis,

all named Pracetas, masters of the science of archery;
having attained the status of Prajāpatis, the sons of Prācīnabarhis were pleased.

Indeed, the earth and the sky were overrun with trees, and they burned down those trees;
then, perceiving the destruction of trees when only a few branches remained,
King Soma approached those Prajāpatis and said:

'Restrain your anger! They will give you the excellent maiden Māriṣā,
[born] to the ascetic sage Kaṇḍu upon Pramlocā, and from myself.

She has been created by me knowing the future; let her be your wife, the establisher of lineage;
upon her Dakṣa will be born, and he will cause offspring to flourish.'

The Pracetases took her, and from her then Dakṣa came to be,
the Prajāpati [born] from the ten Pracetases upon Māriṣā.

Dakṣa of great splendor was born from a portion of Soma, O rulers of the earth; he begot sons by the hundreds and by the thousands.
Five thousand sons of Dakṣa, named Haryaśvas, went to the directions to ascertain the measure of the earth.

Then another thousand sons went in search of them;
even today they do not return, like rivers into the oceans.

Thus ends the tenth chapter, entitled 'The Account of the Lineage of Svāyambhuva [Manu],' in the Vyāsa Purāṇa of the Vallālacarita.

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The eleventh chapter.