The Life of Ballālasena 2.11

Siṃhagiri said:
From the mind of Brahmā came Atri; Soma became his son;
I shall proclaim his lineage, in which you, O king, were born.

Vyāsa said:
Having performed the Rājasūya sacrifice, Soma gave the three worlds as the sacrificial fee
and to the chief priests, [O] scorcher of foes, [who were] Brahmarṣis.

When the final ablution was completed, nine goddesses, desiring to behold his form
their limbs tormented by the arrows of love, waited upon Soma.

Sinīvālī [left] Kardama, Dyuti personally left Kratu Haviṣmat,
[and] leaving Vibhāvasu, Puṣṭi left the imperishable Dhātṛ.

Prabhā left Prabhākara, Vasu left Kaśyapa, son of Marīci,
Kīrti left her husband Jayanta, Dhṛti left her husband Nandī,
[and] Lakṣmī left Nārāyaṇa and then devoted herself to Soma alone.

Soma also desired them then as if they were his own.
He indeed [abducted] the renowned wife of Bṛhaspati named Tārā.

Soma abducted her by force, disrespecting the son of Aṅgiras.
Though entreated by the gods along with the celestial sages, Soma

did not give Tārā back to that son of Aṅgiras then.
Thereupon Bṛhaspati, the preceptor of the gods, became enraged at him.

Then Uśanas attacked the rear of that son of Aṅgiras;
for he, possessed of great fiery energy, was formerly the pupil of Bṛhaspati's father.

Out of that affection, the divine Lord Rudra, grasping his bow Āyagava,
became an ally attacking the rear on behalf of that Bṛhaspati.

By that great-souled one the supreme weapon called Brahmaśiras
was discharged, aimed at the Daityas, whereby their glory was destroyed.

There a dreadful, great battle took place, known as the Tārakāmaya,
between the gods and the Dānavas, causing the destruction of worlds.

There those remaining gods and Tuṣitas, [O] king,
went for refuge to Brahmā, the eternal primeval god.

Brahmā, restraining Uśanas, gave Tārā back to the son of Aṅgiras.
Seeing that she was pregnant, the preceptor said: 'Cast out the fetus.'

The fetus, cast out, then blazed up and said: 'I am born of Soma.'
Thus from Soma was born the son Budha; his son was Purūravas,
to whom, the great-souled one, were born of Urvaśī seven sons,
very great-souled [offspring] of the Gandharvī: the wise Āyus, Amāvasu,

and the righteous Viśvāyu, and likewise another, Śrutāyu,
and Dṛḍhāyu, and Vanāyu, and Śatāyu were the sons of Urvaśī.

In ancient times, however, they were born of Prabhā, the daughter of Svarbhānu.
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Siṃhagiri said:
In their lineages, O Ballāla, great-souled ones of immense energy—
Brahmins, Kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas, [and] Śūdras—were born by the thousands.

Vyāsa said:
The son of Āyus was Nahuṣa; after him, Vṛddhaśarman,
Rambha, Raji, and Anenas; indeed, Raji had a hundred sons.

Known as the Rājeyas, [and] Raji having been granted a boon by Viṣṇu,
he, when requested by the gods, slew the Daityas in the war between gods and Asuras.

Born of Virajā, the mind-born daughter of the ancestors, the six mighty
sons of Nahuṣa had splendor equal to Indra's.

Yati, Yayāti, Saṃyāti, Rāyāti, Pāñcika, Bhava,
[and] Suyāti was the sixth among them; indeed, Yayāti became king.

Yati, however, resorting to liberation, became a sage absorbed in Brahman.
Among those five, Yayāti, having conquered this earth,
obtained Devayānī, the daughter of Uśanas, as his wife,

as well as the Asura woman Śarmiṣṭhā, the daughter of Vṛṣaparvan.
Devayānī gave birth to Yadu and Turvasu,
and Śarmiṣṭhā, daughter of Vṛṣaparvan, [gave birth] to Druhyu, Anu, and Puru.

Yadu and Puru were the continuers of their lineages.
Listen now to that lineage of Yadu, of wondrous prowess.

There were five sons of Yadu, resembling the sons of gods:
Sahasrada, Payoda, Kroṣṭu, Nīla, and Añjika.

Sahasrada had three supremely righteous heirs:
Haihaya, Haya, and King Veṇuhaya.

Haihaya had a wife; [their son was] famed as Dharmanetra.
The son of Dharmanetra was Kārtta, and his son was Sāhañja;
the city named Sāhañjanī was established by that king.

The heir of Sāhañja was the king named Mahiṣmat;
the city named Māhiṣmatī was established by that king.

Mahiṣmat had a powerful son, Bhadraśreṇya;
he is celebrated in the Purāṇa as the king who ruled Vārāṇasī.

The heir of Bhadraśreṇya was known by the name Durdama;
the son of Durdama was a king known by the name Kaṇaka.

From Kaṇaka came Kṛtavīrya, Kṛtāgni, Karavīraka,
and Kṛtaujas was the fourth; and from Kṛtavīrya came Arjuna,

who, with a thousand arms, became the lord of the seven continents.
Alone, in a chariot possessing the luster of the sun, he conquered the earth.

Having bewildered the lord of Laṅkā, Rāvaṇa, along with his army by force,
he bound that arrogant [demon] with bowstrings using five arrows;

having vanquished him and brought him [there], he imprisoned him in Māhiṣmatī.
His thousand arms, O lords of the earth, manifested while fighting
through the magical power of yoga, just like [those] of a master of yoga.

Oh, alas! How great was the prowess in battle when Bhārgava severed
the thousand arms of this king like a forest of golden palm trees!

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Then, from Rāma, the son of Jamadagni, who was slaughtering the arm-born Kṣatriyas,
the chief queen of Kārtavīrya fled from that terribly fierce [sage].

Being pregnant, however, that queen gave birth in the hermitage of Kauśika
to a son named Subhauma, handsome like the morning sun.

That lotus-faced son, reared in due time by his mother,
the mighty-armed one, received the science of archery from Kauśika.

Hearing from his mother's mouth of the Brahmin who killed his father, the youth,
his eyes red with anger, set out in all directions to kill Brahmins.

Twenty-one times he made this earth devoid of Brahmins;
therefore, mouth-born Brahmins do not exist in the Kali age.

Seeing the Śavaras and Kaḍhu-Kaivarttas, Bhārgava then,
in that region lacking Brahmins, provided sacred threads for them.

Women are pleased with ornaments; cows by wandering freely;
elephants by showers of dust; but what [pleases] these [people except] slandering others?

Then the son of Arjuna slew the son of Jamadagni in battle;
thus, having conquered the Brahmins, Subhīma became one whose banner is victory.

Then the Brahmin women, desirous of sons, approached the Kṣatriyas;
upon them were born the castes such as the Kadambapallavas.

Stricken with the sin of killing a Brahmin, that king found no peace; / he sacrificed with a horse sacrifice, the rite that destroys sin.

Even today, a stone image of both of them stands / in the charming city of Māhiṣmatī, on the bank of the Narmadā river.

Kārtavīrya had a hundred sons, but five were preeminent: / Śūrasena, Śūra, the one called Dhṛṣṭa, and Kṛṣṇa, / and the mighty, famous Subhauma Jayadhvaja.

From Jayadhvaja came Tālajaṅgha; from Tālajaṅgha came a hundred sons, / known as the Tālajaṅghas, heroic men of supreme prowess.

In the utterly pure lineage of those great-souled Haihayas / arose the Vītihotras themselves, and the Bhojas are remembered as the Āvantis;

and the famous Tauṇḍikeyas, and likewise the Tālajaṅghas, / and the well-born Bharatas have been recounted by me in the Purāṇa.

The heroes beginning with Vṛṣa were Yādavas of meritorious deeds. / Vṛṣa maintained the lineage there; his son was Madhu.

Madhu had a hundred sons, and Vṛṣaṇa continued his line; / from Vṛṣaṇa all the Vṛṣṇis came, while those from Madhu are remembered as Mādhavas.

And the Yādavas were born from Yadu—they are not recounted in full because of their vast number; / from Turvasu the Yavanas were born, the Bhojas are remembered as the sons of Druhyu, / the Mleccha tribes from Anu, and the Pauravas are remembered from Puru.

Thus ends the eleventh chapter, titled 'The Description of the Lunar Dynasty' from the Vyāsapurāṇa, in the Vallālacarita.

Now the twelfth chapter.