The Life of Ballālasena 2.12

Siṃhagiri said: / Hear, O King, the dynasty of supreme prowess spoken by Vyāsa, / in full detail and order of succession, in which you were born, O ruler of the earth.

Vyāsa said: / Puru's son was the king of great valor, Janamejaya; / his son was Pracinvan, who conquered the eastern quarter.

From Pracinvan came Pravīra, and Manasyu was his son; / and a king named Abhayada became the son of Manasyu.

Likewise, Abhayada had [a son], a king named Sudhanvan; / Sudhanvan had Bahugava, and Saṃpāti was his son.

Saṃpāti's [son] was Rahampāti, and Raudrāśva was indeed his son; / Raudrāśva had ten sons by the apsaras Ghṛtācī:

Ṛceyu was the first among them, Kṛkaneyu the second, / Kakṣeyu, Sthaṇḍileyu, and the wise Saṃnateyu,

Daśārṇeyu, Jaleyu, the mighty Sthaleyu, / Balanitya, and Baleyu—these were the ten sons of Raudrāśva.

Kakṣeyu had three sons of great might: / Sabhānara, Cākṣuṣa, and Paramanthu.

Sabhānara's son was the learned king Kālānala; / Kālānala's son was Sṛñjaya, knower of dharma.

Sṛñjaya had a son, the heroic king Purañjaya; / Purañjaya's glorious son was King Janamejaya.

The royal sage Mahāśāla was born from the body of Janamejaya; / he was well known among the gods, his fame established on earth.

A righteous son named Mahāmanas was born to Mahāśāla; / that heroic Mahāmanas was revered by hosts of warriors.

That best of men, Mahāmanas, fathered two sons: / Uśīnara, knower of dharma, and Titikṣu of great might.

Uśīnara's wives, born of the lineages of royal sages, were five: / Mṛgā, Kṛmi, Navā, Darvā, and the fifth, Dṛṣadvatī.

Uśīnara had five sons by them, upholders of the lineage; / these sons were born to him in his old age through great austerity.

To Nṛgā, Nṛga was the son; in Kṛmi, Kṛmi was born; / to Navā, Nava was the son; of Darvā, Suvrata was [the son];

and from Dṛṣadvatī was born King Śibi Auśīnara. / From Śibi the Śibis are known, and the Yaudheyas from Mṛga.

58 / Navarāṣṭra belongs to Nava, and the city of Kṛmilā to Kṛmi; / likewise the Ambaṣṭhas to Suvrata. Learn now of the sons of Śibi:

Śibi had four sons, renowned throughout the world: / Vṛṣadarbha, Suvīra, Kaikeya, and Madraka.

Their flourishing realms were the Kaikeyas, the Madrakas, / the Vṛṣadarbhas, and the Suvīras. Hear now of the offspring of Titikṣu:

The descendants of Titikṣu became kings in the eastern quarter; / Uṣadratha was of great courage; Pheṇa was his son.

From Pheṇa, Sutapas was born; the son of Sutapas was Bali. / That king with golden quivers was born in a human womb.

In ancient times King Bali was a great yogin; / he fathered five sons who established lineages on earth:

Aṅga was born first, and likewise Vaṅga and Suhma, / and Puṇḍra and Kaliṅga; they are called the Bāleya Kṣatriyas.

And the Bāleya Brahmins were perpetuators of his line on earth. / A boon was granted to Bali by the pleased and wise Brahmā:

the state of a great yogin, a lifespan of a kalpa's measure, / invincibility in battle, preeminence in dharma, / vision of the three worlds, and preeminence in procreation;

matchless strength, insight into the truth of dharma, / and that 'you shall establish the four eternal varnas.'

When this was spoken by the Lord, King Bali attained supreme peace. / Having consecrated those five sinless sons here,

his purpose fulfilled, his mind united in yoga, that lord took refuge in yoga; / unassailable by all beings, awaiting his time, he roamed as a sage.

After a long time, the steadfast king reached his own realm. / Their five territories were the Aṅgas, Vaṅgas, together with the Suhmas,

Kaliṅgas, and Puṇḍrakas. Now hear of the progeny of Aṅga: / Aṅga's son was the great emperor Dadhivāhana.

Dadhivāhana's son was King Diviratha; / his [son] was the learned Dharmaratha, whose son was Citraratha.

By that great-souled Dharmaratha, performing sacrifice / on the mount of Viṣṇupada, soma was drunk together with Śakra.

Then Citraratha also had a son, Daśaratha, / known as Romapāda, whose daughter was Śāntā.

His heroic son Caturaṅga, of great renown, / who enlarged the lineage, was born by the favor of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga.

Caturaṅga's son was famed as Pṛthulākṣa; / Pṛthulākṣa's son was the highly renowned king named Campa.

Campa’s city was Campā, which was formerly Mālinī. / Through the grace of Pūrṇabhadra, Haryakṣa became his son.

Then the son of Vibhaṇḍaka brought down to earth by means of mantras / an elephant that warded off enemies, the supreme mount for him.

The heir of Haryakṣa is remembered as King Bhadraratha. / The son of Bhadraratha was Bṛhatkarman, lord of subjects.

His son was Bṛhadarbha, from whom Bṛhanmanas was born. / And Bṛhanmanas, the king of kings, truly begot a son,

Heroic by name Jayadratha, from whom came King Dṛḍharatha. / And the delighter of his line born to Dṛḍharatha was Viśvajit.

His heir was Karṇa, and Vikarṇa was his son; / and he had a hundred sons who increased the lineage of the Aṅgas.

Now that king named Bṛhanmanas who was the son of Bṛhadarbha, / he had two wives, the auspicious daughters of Vainateya,

Yaśodevī and Satyā; from the two of them the lineage continues. / King Jayadratha was born of Yaśodevī,

And on Satyā was born one named Vijaya, celebrated as the best among Brahmakṣatriyas. / Vijaya’s son was Dhṛti; his son was Dhṛtavrata.

The son of Dhṛtavrata was the renowned Satyakarma. / His son was Adhiratha, whose other name was Sūta.

He who adopted Karṇa, and because of him Karṇa is called Sūtaja. / Karṇa’s son was Vṛṣasena, and Pṛthusena was his son.

In Pṛthusena's lineage there will be the hero Vīrasena, / who will marry the daughter of a Gauḍa Brahmin named Somaṭā.

Kings of boundless prowess, born of that lineage, / heroes, will bring the lords of the seven continents into subjection.

In that family, Sāmantasena will arise as a mighty protector / of the ocean-clad earth from the Vindhya down to the Setubandha.

Siṃhagiri said:
From him came Hemantasena, O King, your grandfather, / an abode of splendours and glories, a fire to the hostile army.

From him came King Vijayasena, friend of Coḍagaṅga, / who conquered the entire earth girdled by four oceans.

You are his son, Ballāla, an emperor among kings, / in whom rival rulers have taken refuge.

The lineage which is the source of the Brahmakṣatriyas, ancestral to the Kṣatriyas, / from that the Sena family was born, in which Pāṇḍu’s descendant too was born.

The fool who, evil-minded, hates and slanders the Pāṇḍava, / he, becoming a worm in excrement, would cook in hell for a long time.

He is Vallabhānandacandra, beloved of tens of thousands of moon-like women. / O Great King, his command must now be carried out.

He has a jewel of a maiden, incomparable on earth in beauty; / seize that maiden, O descendant of Puru, just as Nābhāga seized Suprabhā!

Whenever that young maiden goes under the high moon to bathe in the Gaurī, / each time the dawn hastens the sun to see her.

Seeing dawn break when two daṇḍas yet remain of the night, / merchants do not trust their water-clocks.

Thus ends the twelfth chapter, named The Praise of the Line of Puru, in the Vyāsapurāṇa in the Vallālacarita.

Now begins the thirteenth chapter.