Agnipurana 107
English (machine translation) 107
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107.1
I shall speak of the configuration of the cosmos, and the characteristics of the earth, continents, and so forth: / [The sons of Priyavrata were] Āgnīdhra, Agnibāhu, Vapuṣmat, and Dyutimat,
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Medhā, Medhātithi, Bhavya, and Savana, as his sons.
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[Footnote]
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1. 'gṛhāṇi nagarādiṣu' in MS jha; 'gṛhāṇi nagarāṇi tu' in MS kha.
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2. 'viṃśa eva ca' in MSS kha and cha.
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3. 'aṣṭābhirvibhajedevam' in MS cha.
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4. 'īśvara uvāca' in MSS kha and cha.
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5. 'savanaḥ kṣaya eva ca' in MS ka.
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The tenth among them was his son Jyotiṣmān, whose name was truthful.
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The sons of Priyavrata were renowned; their father gave them the seven continents. / Then he gave Jambūdvīpa to Āgnīdhra, and Plakṣa to Medhātithi;
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And Śālmala to Vapuṣmān, and that called Kuśa to Jyotiṣmān, / Krauñcadvīpa to Dyutimān, and Śāka he gave to Bhavya.
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He gave Puṣkara to Savana; and to Āgnīdhra's sons he gave a hundred, / [while] the father gave a hundred thousand [yojanas of] Jambūdvīpa; [the realm] named Hima was given to Nābhi;
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Hemakūṭa to Kimpuruṣa, Naiṣadha to Harivarṣa, / in Ilāvṛta, in the middle of Meru; [the realm] bordering the Blue Mountain (Nīlācala) to Ramyaka;
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To Hiraṇvān the White Realm (Śvetavarṣa), and Kuru to Kuru he gave; / and Bhadrāśva to Bhadrāśva, and the western [realm] to Ketumāla.
107.8
Having consecrated his sons, Priyavrata departed from Meru to the forest; / having performed ascetic austerity at Śālagrāma, the king merged into Viṣṇu.
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The eight realms beginning with Kimpuruṣa, O best of men, / their perfection is natural, mostly happy, without effort.
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There is no fear of old age or death, no virtue or vice, cosmic ages and the like, / nothing inferior, [only] mediocre [and] equal, up to Nābhi's realm from the Snowy [Mountain].
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ṛṣabha was born from Merudevī, and from Ṛṣabha Bharata was born. / Ṛṣabha, having conferred prosperity upon his son, went to Hari at Śālagrāma.
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From Bharata came the realm of Bhārata, and from Bharata was born Sumati. / Bharata, having conferred fortune [upon him], went to Hari at Śālagrāma.
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1. 'sutebhya u' in kha and cha.
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2. 'ramyenīlācalāśriyam' in kha, ṅa, and jha; 'ramyaṃ nīlācale sthitam' in gha.
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3. 'himāddeśāntanābhita' in cha.
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4. 'sumatistata' in ga. / :p 366
107.13
He was a yogin; in the context of yoga I shall tell his life story again. / From the brilliance of that Sumati, Indradyumna was born;
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From him Parameṣṭhin, and from him Pratīhāra was his lineage; / from Pratīhāra [came] Pratīhartā, and from Pratihartṛ then [came] Bhuva;
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Udgītha, and then Prastāra; Vibhu was the son of Prastāra; / and then Pṛthu, then Nakta, and Gaya was the son of Nakta;
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Nara was the son of Gaya; from him his son was Virāj; / his son was Mahāvīrya; from him was born the wise
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Mahānta, and his son was Manasyu; / Tvaṣṭā, and from Tvaṣṭā Virajā, and Rajas was also his son;
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Satyajit was born of Rajas; to him were born a hundred sons, O sage, / with Viśvajyotis as the foremost; by them Bhārata was expanded.
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Through the creation of the Kṛta, Tretā, and other [ages], this is remembered as the creation of Svāyambhuva.
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Thus, in the Great Purāṇa of Agni, the one hundred and seventh chapter, entitled 'The Creation of Svāyambhuva'.
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Now the one hundred and eighth chapter:
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The Structure of the Universe.
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