Bhagavatapurana 9.2: atha dvitīyo'dhyāyaḥ

9.2.1

/0 śrīśuka uvāca
evaṃ gate 'tha sudyumne manurvaivasvataḥ sute /
putrakāmastapastepe yamunāyāṃ śataṃ samāḥ //

Śrī Śuka said: / When his son Sudyumna had thus departed, Manu Vaivasvata, / desiring sons, practiced austerities on the banks of the Yamunā for a hundred years.

1. Sri Suka said.—When his son Sudyumna was thus gone, Manu, son of Vivasvat, desirous of issue, performed for a century tapas on the banks of (immersed in the waters of) the Yamuna.

9.2.2

tato 'yajan manurdevamapatyārthaṃ hariṃ prabhum /
ikṣvākupūrvajān putrān lebhe svasadṛśān daśa //

Then Manu worshipped the divine Lord Hari to obtain offspring, / and obtained ten sons equal to himself, of whom Ikṣvāku was the eldest.

2. Then by means of a sacrifice Manu worshipped the Supreme Lord Hari for the sake of issue; and he had ten sons, Ikshvaku being the first of them and all like unto himself.

9.2.3

pṛṣadhrastu manoḥ putro gopālo guruṇā kṛtaḥ /
pālayāmāsa gā yatto rātryāṃ vīrāsanavrataḥ //

Pṛṣadhra, a son of Manu, was made a cowherd by his guru; / he guarded the cattle with diligence, observing the vow of staying in the heroic posture through the night.

3. But Prishadhra (Vrishadhra), the son of Manu, was asked to protect his cows by the preceptor and he tended cows, attentively sitting up in Virasana (posture) during nights.

9.2.4

ekadā prāviśadgoṣṭhaṃ śārdūlo niśi varṣati /
śayānā gāva utthāya bhītāstā babhramurvraje //

Once, a tiger entered the cattle-pen at night while it was raining; / rising from their sleep, the cows roamed in fear within the enclosure.

4. On one occasion, at midnight, when it was raining, a tiger entered the stall; and the cows that were lying down started in fear and ran about the stall.

9.2.5

ekāṃ jagrāha balavān sā cukrośa bhayāturā /
tasyāstu kranditaṃ śrutvā pṛṣadhro 'nusasāra ha //

The powerful beast seized one [cow], and she cried out, stricken with terror; / hearing her weeping, Pṛṣadhra indeed ran after [them].

5 & 6. The powerful (wild) beast seized one of them and she in anxious fear screamed aloud; hearing the screaming cow, Prishadhra rushed forward in haste with a sword in hand, in the dark midnight, when even the stars were not to be seen, and thinking that it was the tiger and not knowing it, he cut off the head of the cow (Kapila) of brown complexion.

9.2.6

khaḍgamādāya tarasā pralīnoḍugaṇe niśi /
ajānannacchinodbabhroḥ śiraḥ śārdūlaśaṅkayā //

Seizing a sword in haste in the night when the host of stars was hidden, / not knowing, he severed the head of the tawny cow, mistaking her for the tiger.

9.2.7

vyāghro 'pi vṛkṇaśravaṇo nistriṃśāgrāhatastataḥ /
niścakrāma bhṛśaṃ bhīto raktaṃ pathi samutsṛjan //

The tiger too, its ear severed by the strike of the sword's point, / ran out in great terror, shedding blood along the path.

7. The tiger also had its ear severed with the end of the sword and ran way from the spot in great fear, dripping blood on its way.

9.2.8

manyamāno hataṃ vyāghraṃ pṛṣadhraḥ paravīrahā /
adrākṣīt svahatāṃ babhruṃ vyuṣṭāyāṃ niśi duḥkhitaḥ //

Believing the tiger slain, Pṛṣadhra, the slayer of enemy heroes, / saw when night had dawned that the tawny cow had been killed by him, and was grieved.

8. The heroic Prishadhra believed that the tiger was killed, but in the morning was sorely greived to see that a cow had been killed by him in the (dark) night.

9.2.9

taṃ śaśāpa kulācāryaḥ kṛtāgasamakāmataḥ /
na kṣatrabandhuḥ śūdrastvaṃ karmaṇā bhavitāmunā //

The family preceptor cursed him, who had committed an offense unintentionally: / "You shall not be a kṣatriya; by this deed you shall become a śūdra!"

9. On him who (though he) had unwittingly committed the fault, the family preceptor pronounced a curse in the following manner; "Thou art not fit to remain (even as) a relation of Kshatriyas and thou shalt for this act become a Sudra".

9.2.10

evaṃ śaptastu guruṇā pratyagṛhṇāt kṛtāñjaliḥ /
adhārayadvrataṃ vīra ūrdhvaretā munipriyam //

Thus cursed by his guru, he accepted it with folded hands; / a hero of celibate life, he observed a vow dear to sages.

10. The curse thus pronounced by the preceptor the hero accepted with joined hands and took up the vow of strictest celibacy, which is most beloved of the sages.

9.2.11

vāsudeve bhagavati sarvātmani pare 'male /
ekāntitvaṃ gato bhaktyā sarvabhūtasuhṛt samaḥ //

Attaining single-minded devotion to the Lord Vāsudeva, the Supreme Self of all, pure, / he became equal-minded and a friend to all living beings.

11. By devotion to the glorious all-pervading perfect Lord Vasudeva untouched by defects, he became an absolute votary and the best friend of all creatures equally kind to all.

9.2.12

vimuktasaṅgaḥ śāntātmā saṃyatākṣo 'parigrahaḥ /
yadṛcchayopapannena kalpayan vṛttimātmanaḥ //

Freed from attachment, tranquil in self, senses controlled, without possessions, / maintaining his livelihood with whatever came to him by chance,

12 & 13. Rid of attachments, with a serene mind and his senses under control, with nothing to encumber him, he lived on anything he got by chance, set his mind on Atman, satisfied with the light of knowledge and unperturbed, went about the earth, looking like a dull, blind and deaf man.

9.2.13

ātmanyātmānamādhāya jñānatṛptaḥ samāhitaḥ /
vicacāra mahīmetāṃ jaḍāndhabadhirākṛtiḥ //

fixing the mind upon the Self, satisfied in knowledge, concentrated in meditation, / he roamed this earth appearing as if inert, blind, and deaf.

9.2.14

evaṃ vṛtto vanaṃ gatvā dṛṣṭvā dāvāgnimutthitam /
tenopayuktakaraṇo brahma prāpa paraṃ muniḥ //

Living thus, the sage entered a forest, and seeing a forest fire that had arisen, / using his senses [as oblations] through it, he attained the Supreme Brahman.

14. Thus living on he went into a forest, saw it on fire, and allowed his body to be consumed by it; and (thus) the saintly Prishadhra attained to Parabrahman.

9.2.15

kaviḥ kanīyān viṣayeṣu niḥspṛho visṛjya rājyaṃ saha bandhubhirvanam /
niveśya citte puruṣaṃ svarociṣaṃ viveśa kaiśoravayāḥ paraṃ gataḥ //

Kavi, the youngest, free of craving for sense objects, having renounced the kingdom along with his kinsmen, / establishing the self-luminous Person in his heart, entered the forest in the bloom of youth and attained the Supreme.

15. Also the younger son Kavi, [Though young, the wise prince] feeling no heart for worldly objects, abandoned both the kingdom and relations, enthroned the self-luminous Lord in his heart, entered the forest and, while yet a boy, attained to Parabrahman.

9.2.16

karūṣān mānavādāsan kārūṣāḥ kṣatrajātayaḥ /
uttarāpathagoptāro brahmaṇyā dharmavatsalāḥ //

From Karūṣa, the son of Manu, sprang the Kārūṣas, a race of kṣatriyas
who guarded the northern path, devoted to the brahmins and lovers of dharma.

16. From Karoosha, son of Manu, descended the Karoosha races of Kshatriyas who became protectors of the northern regions and who were all devoted to brahmins and to Dharma.

9.2.17

dhṛṣṭāddhārṣṭamabhūt kṣatraṃ brahmabhūyaṃ gataṃ kṣitau /
nṛgasya vaṃśaḥ sumatirbhūtajyotistato vasuḥ //

From Dhṛṣṭa arose a kṣatriya lineage called Dhārṣṭa, which attained the status of brahmins on earth.
From Nṛga came the line: Sumati, then Bhūtajyotis, and from him Vasu.

17. The Kshatriya race of Dharshta descended from Dhrishta acquired brahmin virtue on the earth; Nriga's son was Sumati whose son was Bhutajjyotis and of him was born Vasu.

9.2.18

vasoḥ pratīkastatputra oghavān oghavatpitā /
kanyā caughavatī nāma sudarśana uvāha tām //

The son of Vasu was Pratīka; his son was Oghavān, the father of Oghavat
and a daughter named Oghavatī; Sudarśana married her.

18. Vasu's son was Prateeka whose son was Oghavat, the father of Oghavat, (i.e. Oghavan's son was also called Oghavan); he had also a daughter named Oghavati whom Sudarsana took for his wife.

9.2.19

citraseno nariṣyantādṛkṣastasya suto 'bhavat /
tasya mīḍhvāṃstataḥ pūrṇa indrasenastu tatsutaḥ //

From Nariṣyanta was born Citrasena; his son was Ṛkṣa.
His son was Mīḍhvas; from him sprang Pūrṇa, and Indrasena was his son.

19. Narishyanta's son was Chitrasena of whom Daksha was born; (the son) of the last was Meedhvan, of whom Koorcha was born; and Koorcha's son was Indrasena.

9.2.20

vītihotrastv indrasenāt tasya satyaśravā abhūt /
uruśravāḥ sutastasya devadattastato 'bhavat //

From Indrasena came Vītihotra; his son was Satyaśravas.
Uruśravas was his son, and from him arose Devadatta.

20. Indrasena's son was Veetihotra, who begot Satyasravas, of whom Urusravas was born, and to this Devadatta was son.

9.2.21

tato 'gniveśyo bhagavān agniḥ svayamabhūt sutaḥ /
kānīna iti vikhyāto jātūkarṇyo mahān ṛṣiḥ //

From him Agniveśya was born as a son, who was the Lord Agni himself,
renowned as Kānīna and Jātūkarṇya, a great sage.

21. Devadatta's son Agnivesya was the worshipful god Agni himself born as a son, and he was also known as Kaneena and also as a great Rishi, renowned Jatukarnya.

9.2.22

tato brahmakulaṃ jātamāgniveśyāyanaṃ nṛpa /
nariṣyantānvayaḥ prokto diṣṭavaṃśamataḥ śṛṇu //

From him, O King, arose the Āgniveśyāyana brahmin lineage.
The line of Nariṣyanta has thus been declared; hear now the dynasty of Diṣṭa.

22. From him originated the brahmin race of Agnivesyayana. O king, thus Narishyanta's line has been told; and (now) listen to that of Dishta.

9.2.23

nābhāgo diṣṭaputro 'nyaḥ karmaṇā vaiśyatāṃ gataḥ /
bhalandanaḥ sutastasya vatsaprītirbhalandanāt //

Another son of Diṣṭa was Nābhāga, who became a vaiśya by occupation.
His son was Bhalandana; from Bhalandana was born Vatsaprīti.

23. Nabhaga, another son of (Dishta's son Nabhaga different from the one to be mentioned later on) Dishta, became a Vaisya by his trade; his son was Bhalandana (Halandana) of whom Vatsapreeti was born.

9.2.24

vatsaprīteḥ sutaḥ prāṃśustatsutaṃ pramatiṃ viduḥ /
khanitraḥ pramatestasmāc cākṣuṣo 'tha viviṃśatiḥ //

The son of Vatsaprīti was Prāṃśu; his son, they know, was Pramati.
Khanitra was born from Pramati; from him Cākṣuṣa, and then Viviṃśati.

24. Vatsapreeti's son was Praamsu whose son is known as Pramati; of Pramati Khanitra (V. Khamitra) was the son; and his son was Chaakshusha, of whom Vivimsati was born.

9.2.25

viviṃśateḥ suto rambhaḥ khanīnetro 'sya dhārmikaḥ /
karandhamo mahārāja tasyāsīdātmajo nṛpa //

The son of Viviṃśati was Rambha; his son was the righteous Khanīnetra.
Karandhama, O great king, was his son, O ruler of men.

25. Vivimsati's son was Rambha (Dambha) whose son was the virtuous Khaninetra and Karandhama was the son of the last, O great king.

9.2.26

tasyāvīkṣit suto yasya maruttaścakravartyabhūt /
saṃvarto 'yājayadyaṃ vai mahāyogyaṅgiraḥsutaḥ //

His son was Avīkṣit, whose son Marutta became an emperor;
Saṃvarta, the great yogin and son of Aṅgiras, officiated as his priest.

26. His son was Avikshit, whose son Marutta became an Emperor whom the great Yogin Samvarta, son of Angiras, helped to perform sacrifices.

9.2.27

maruttasya yathā yajño na tathānyo 'sti kaścana /
sarvaṃ hiraṇmayaṃ tv āsīdyat kiñcic cāsya śobhanam //

There was no sacrifice equal to that of Marutta;
every single thing of his that was splendid was made of gold.

27. No other person in the world performed sacrifices so splendidly as Marutta did; everything (every utensil) was of gold and whatever he had was good and auspicious.

9.2.28

amādyadindraḥ somena dakṣiṇābhirdvijātayaḥ /
marutaḥ pariveṣṭāro viśvedevāḥ sabhāsadaḥ //

Indra was exhilarated by the soma, the twice-born by the sacrificial gifts;
the Maruts served the food, and the Viśvedevas were members of the assembly.

28. Indra was overjoyed with the Soma juice and the brahmins with dakshinas; Maruts distributed food; and Visvedevas were members of his (sacrificial) assembly.

9.2.29

maruttasya damaḥ putrastasyāsīdrājyavardhanaḥ /
sudhṛtistatsuto jajñe saudhṛteyo naraḥ sutaḥ //

The son of Marutta was Dama; his son was Rājyavardhana.
Sudhṛti was born as his son, and the son of Sudhṛti was Nara.

29. Marutta had a son called Dama who had a son called Rajyavardhana and his son was Sudhriti; and Nara was Sudhriti's son.

9.2.30

tatsutaḥ kevalastasmāddhundhumān vegavāṃstataḥ /
budhastasyābhavadyasya tṛṇabindurmahīpatiḥ //

His son was Kevala; from him sprang Dhundhumān; then Vegavān.
His son was Budha, whose son was King Tṛṇabindu.

30. His son was Kevala to whom Bhanduman was son and of him was born Vegavan; his son was Bhandhu of whom was born Trinabindu, the great king of the Earth.

9.2.31

taṃ bheje 'lambuṣā devī bhajanīyaguṇālayam /
varāpsarā yataḥ putrāḥ kanyā celavilābhavat //

The goddess Alambuṣā, an excellent apsaras, took him—an abode of praiseworthy qualities—as her husband;
from her were born sons, and a daughter named Ilavilā.

31. The celestial damsel Alambusha devoted herself to him (Trinabindu) of praise-worthy qualities and brought forth (bore to him) a few sons and a daughter called Idavida (Ilibila or Ilabila).

9.2.32

yasyāmutpādayāmāsa viśravā dhanadaṃ sutam /
prādāya vidyāṃ paramāmṛṣiryogeśvaraḥ pituḥ //

In her the sage Viśravas, master of yoga, begot his son Kubera, the giver of wealth,
after receiving the supreme knowledge from his father.

32. By her the Rishi Visravas had a son who was Kubera; he obtained an excellent Vidya from his father, a master of Yogas.

9.2.33

viśālaḥ śūnyabandhuśca dhūmraketuśca tatsutāḥ /
viśālo vaṃśakṛdrājā vaiśālīṃ nirmame purīm //

Viśāla, Śūnyabandhu, and Dhūmraketu were her sons;
King Viśāla, the founder of the dynasty, built the city of Vaiśālī.

33. And the sons of this king are Visala, Sunyabandhu and Dumraketu; of these Visala who became a king and continued their line (of kings) built the city called Vaisali.

9.2.34

hemacandraḥ sutastasya dhūmrākṣastasya cātmajaḥ /
tatputrāt saṃyamādāsīt kṛśāśvaḥ sahadevajaḥ //

Hemacandra was his son, and Dhūmrākṣa was his son.
From his son Saṃyama was born Kṛśāśva, father of Sahadeva.

34. His son was Hemachandra whose son was called Dhumraksha; and of Samyama, the son of the last named, was born Sahadeva whose son was Krisasva.

9.2.35

kṛśāśvāt somadatto 'bhūdyo 'śvamedhairiḍaspatim /
iṣṭvā puruṣamāpāgryāṃ gatiṃ yogeśvarāśritām //

From Kṛśāśva came Somadatta, who by horse sacrifices worshipped the Lord of the earth,
the Supreme Person, and attained the highest destination sought by masters of yoga.

35. Somadatta was born of Krisasva; and he worshipped Hari the Perfect Person with Asvamedha sacrifices; and having secured the support of masters of Yoga he attained to the highest goal.

9.2.36

saumadattistu sumatistatputro janamejayaḥ /
ete vaiśālabhūpālāstṛṇabindoryaśodharāḥ //

The son of Somadatta was Sumati; his son was Janamejaya.
These are the kings of Vaiśālī, who upheld the glory of Tṛṇabindu.

36. Somadatta's son was Sumati whose son was Janamejaya; and these kings of Vaisali maintained the reputation of Trinabindu.