Agnipurana 277

English (machine translation) 277

Language: English

277.9 — 2 parts
277.19 — 4 parts
277.30 — 2 parts
277.41 — 5 parts

277.1

Agni said: / From Pūru arose Janamejaya, and Prācīnvat was his son. / From Prācīnvat came Manasyu; from him King Vītamaya.

277.2

Śundhu arose from Vītamaya; Bahuvidha was the son of Śundhu. / From Bahuvidha came Saṃyāti, and Rahovādin was his son.

277.3

His son then was Bhadrāśva; Bhadrāśva had ten sons: / Ṛceyu, Kṛṣeyu, and likewise his son Sannateyu,

277.4

Ghṛteyu, Citeyu, and Sthaṇḍileyu the most excellent, / Dharmeyu, Sannateyu, Kṛceyu, and Matināra.

277.5

Taṃsurogha, Pratiratha, and Purasta were born of Matināra. / From Pratiratha was Kaṇva, and from Kaṇva arose Medhātithi.

277.6

From Taṃsurogha came four: Duṣmanta, then Pravīraka, / Sumanta, and Anaya the hero. From Duṣmanta arose Bharata

277.7

upon Śakuntalā, mighty, after whose name the Bhāratas are called. / And when the sons of Bharata were lost through their mother's wrath,

277.8

then that son of Bṛhaspati, Bharadvāja, having been brought by the Maruts / and transferred [to him], became Vitatha through sacrifices.

277.9

And he, Vitatha, fathered five sons indeed:

277.9.p1

[Footnote]

277.9.p2

[Variant reading:] "Śaṅbhu arose from Vītamaya; Bahuvidha was Śambhu's [son]" in manuscripts kha, ja, and ca.

277.9_2

Suhotra, Suhotṛ, Gaya, and likewise Garbha,

277.10

Kapila, and the two sons the noble [one] and Suketu, / and Kauśika, and Gṛtsapati; and the sons of Gṛtsapati

277.11

were Brahmins, Kṣatriyas, and Vaiśyas. In Kāśi were the sons of Dīrghatamas; / then arose Dhanvantari, and Ketumat was his son.

277.12

Hemaratha was the son of Ketumat; he is famed as Divodāsa. / From Divodāsa came Pratardana; Bharga and Vatsa were from Pratardana.

277.13

From Vatsa was Anarka, and from Anarka arose Kṣemaka. / From Kṣemaka came Varṣaketu, and from Varṣaketu, Vibhu is remembered.

277.14

Anarta was the son of Vibhu, and also Sukumāraka from Vibhu. / From Sukumāra came Satyaketu, and Vatsabhūmi from Vatsaka.

277.15

Suhotra's son was Bṛhat; Bṛhat had three sons: / Ajamīḍha, Dvimīḍha, and Purumīḍha endowed with valor.

277.16

To Ajamīḍha upon Keśinī was born the radiant Jahnu. / From Jahnu arose Ajakāśva; Balākāśva was his son.

277.17

Kuśika was the son of Valākāśva; from Kuśika came Gādhi, an Indra [among men]. / Gādhi's daughter was Satyavatī, and Viśvāmitra was his excellent son.

277.18

Devarāta, those headed by Kati, Śunaḥśepha, / and another, Aṣṭaka, were the sons of Viśvāmitra. From Ajamīḍha another son arose

277.19

upon Nīlinī, Śānti; Purujāti came from Suśānti.

277.19.p1

[Footnote]

277.19.p2

[Variant reading:] "kāśadīrghatamāḥ" in manuscript ja.

277.19.p3

[Variant reading:] "son" in manuscripts kha, cha, ja, and ca.

277.19.p4

[Variant reading:] "endowed with power" in manuscript kha.

277.19_2

From Purujāti came Vāhyāśva; from Vāhyāśva came five rulers:

277.20

Mukula, Sṛñjaya, King Bṛhadiṣu, / Yavīnara, and Kṛmila; they are renowned as the Pāñcālas.

277.21

The descendants of Mukula were the Maukulyas, twice-born endowed with fields. / Cañcāśva was born of Mukula; from Cañcāśva a twin pair arose:

277.22

Divodāsa and Ahalyā. Upon Ahalyā from Śaradvat / was born Śatānanda; from Śatānanda, Satyadhṛti; then a twin pair:

277.23

Kṛpa and Kṛpī. From Divodāsa came Maitreya; then Somapa. / From Sṛñjaya came Pañcadhanuṣ, and Somadatta was his son.

277.24

Sahadeva came from Somadatta; from Sahadeva came Somaka. / From Somaka was Jantu, and Pṛṣata was Jantu's son.

277.25

From Pṛṣata came Drupada; from him Dhṛṣṭadyumna, and then his son / Dhṛṣṭaketu. Upon Dhūminī arose Ṛkṣa from Ajamīḍha.

277.26

From Ṛkṣa was born Saṃvaraṇa, and Kuru then from Saṃvaraṇa, / who, setting out from Prayāga, established Kurukṣetra.

277.27

From Kuru sprang Sudhanvan, Sudhanus, Parikṣit, and Arimejaya.
From Sudhanvan was Suhotra, and from Suhotra sprang Cyavana.

277.28

By Vaśiṣṭha and Paricāra, Girikā had seven sons:
Bṛhadratha, Kuśa, the hero Yadu, Pratyagraha, and Bala,

277.29

Matsyakālī, and Kuśāgra; these came from King Bṛhadratha.
From Kuśāgra was born Vṛṣabha; his son was Satyahita.

277.30

His son was Sudhanvan; then Ūrja; and from Ūrja came Sambhava.

277.30.p1

[Note]

277.30.p2

1. 'yavīnacaś ca' in manuscripts kha, cha, ña, and ca. / [Page 26]

277.30_2

And from Sambhava came Jarāsandha, and his son was Sahadeva.

277.31

From Sahadeva was Udāpi, and from Udāpi was Śrutakarmaka.
The righteous Janamejaya was the heir of Parikṣit.

277.32

From Janamejaya came Trasadasyu; but of Jahnu, the son was Suratha;
and by name Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhīmasena.

277.33

The sons of Janamejaya were Suratha and Mahīmant.
From Suratha came Vidūratha; from Vidūratha came Ṛkṣa.

277.34

The son of the second Ṛkṣa was Bhīmasena.
From Bhīmasena came Pratīpa; and of Pratīpa was Śāntanu.

277.35

Śāntanu's [brothers] were Devāpi and Bāhlika, and Somadatta [was Bāhlika's son].
From Bāhlika was Somadatta, and [from him] Bhūri, Bhūriśravas, and Śala.

277.36

From Śāntanu by Gaṅgā was Bhīṣma; by Kālī was Vicitravīrya;
and Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana, in the wife of Vicitravīrya,

277.37

begot Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu, and also Vidura.
To Pāṇḍu by Kuntī were three: Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma, and Arjuna.

277.38

Nakula and Sahadeva were Pāṇḍu's by Mādrī through the deities.
Arjuna's son was the son of Subhadrā [Abhimanyu], and Parikṣit was from Abhimanyu.

277.39

And Draupadī was the beloved of the Pāṇḍavas; on her, from Yudhiṣṭhira,
was Prativindhya; from Bhīmasena [was Sutasoma]; from Dhanañjaya was Śrutakīrti;