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# Harivamsha 2.42

Harivaṃśa 2.42

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa.2.42)

yuṣmākaṃ tejaso 'rdhena mama cārdhena tejasaḥ  
asyām utpatsyate vidvān dakṣo nāma prajāpatiḥ //

> From half of your fiery energy and half of my fiery energy,  
> the wise Prajāpati named Dakṣa will be born in her."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa~en-mt.2.42) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (2)

- [Bhāratabhāvadīpa (on the Harivaṃśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa!nilakantha) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara, Sanskrit
- [Harivaṃśaṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa!nilakantha-suri) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Vulgate](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa*vulgate.2.42) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma.2.43) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.2.2.36) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*crit.1.15.9) — Sanskrit
- [Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jain-1947.c8.s2.8) — Jagdish Chandra Jain, English
- [Yantras or Mechanical Contrivances in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.raghavan-1952.c2.33) — V. Raghavan, English

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