Bhagavatapurana 6.6

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Śrī Śuka said: / Then Dakṣa, son of Pracetas, appeased by the self-born Brahmā, / begot sixty daughters affectionate toward their father upon Asiknī.

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He gave ten to Dharma, thirteen to Kaśyapa, twenty-seven to the Moon, / two each to Bhūta, Aṅgiras, and Kṛśāśva, and the remaining ones to Tārkṣya.

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Listen from me to the names of these women and their offspring, / by the progeny of whose children the three worlds were completely filled.

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Bhānu, Lambā, Kakud, Yāmi, Viśvā, Sādhyā, Marutvatī, / Vasu, Muhūrtā, and Saṅkalpā: these are the wives of Dharma; hear their sons:

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From Bhānu came Deva-ṛṣabha, and from him, O king, Indrasena; / Vidyota was born of Lambā, and from him the clouds that thunder.

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The son of Kakud was Saṅkaṭa, whose son was Kīkaṭa, / from whom arose the earth's strongholds; Yāmi's son was Svarga, and from him came Nandi.

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The Viśvedevas were born of Viśvā; they are said to be childless; / the group of Sādhyas was born of Sādhyā, and Arthasiddhi was their son.

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Marutvān and Jayanta were born of Marutvatī; / Jayanta was a portion of Vāsudeva, whom they know as Upendra.

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The Mauhūrtika classes of gods were born of Muhūrtā; / they indeed bestow on living beings the fruits born of their respective times.

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Saṅkalpa was born of Saṅkalpā, and Kāma is remembered as born of Saṅkalpa; / the eight Vasus were the sons of Vasu; hear their names from me.

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Droṇa, Prāṇa, Dhruva, Arka, Agni, Doṣa, Vāstu, and Vibhāvasu [were the eight Vasus]. / From Droṇa and his wife Abhimati were born Joy, Grief, Fear, and others.

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Prāṇa's wife was Ūrjasvatī; [their sons were] Saha, Āyus, and Purojava. / Dhruva's wife Dharaṇī gave birth to various cities.

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Arka's wife was Vāsanā; their sons are remembered as Thirst and others. / Agni's wife was Vasordhārā; their sons were Draviṇaka and others,

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and Skanda, the son of the Kṛttikās, and then Viśākha and the rest. / Doṣa's son by Śarvarī was Śiśumāra, a portion of Hari.

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By Vāstu, [his wife] Āṅgirasī bore the son Viśvakarman, the lord of Ākṛti. / From him was born the Manu Cākṣuṣa; the Viśvedevas and the Sādhyas were the sons of that Manu.

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Uṣā gave birth from Vibhāvasu to Vyuṣṭa, Rociṣ, and Ātapa. / From Ātapa came Pañcayāma, by whom living beings awake to their activities.

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Sarūpā, the wife of Bhūta, gave birth to millions of Rudras: / Raivata, Aja, Bhava, Bhīma, Vāma, Ugra, Vṛṣākapi,

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Ajaikapād, Ahirbradhna, Bahurūpa, and Mahān. / And the other fierce attendants of Rudra were the pretas and vināyakas.

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Next, Svadhā, the virtuous wife of the Prajāpati Aṅgiras, / accepted the ancestors and the Atharvāṅgirasa Veda as her sons.

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Kṛśāśva begot Dhūmaketu upon his wife Arcis, / and upon Dhiṣaṇā: Vedaśiras, Devala, Vayuna, and Manu.

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Vinatā, Kadrū, Pataṅgī, and Yāminī were the wives of Tārkṣya. / Pataṅgī gave birth to birds, and Yāminī to locusts.

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Suparṇā gave birth to Garuḍa, the very vehicle of the Lord of sacrifice, / and to Anūru, the charioteer of the sun; and Kadrū gave birth to numerous serpents.

The lunar mansions beginning with Kṛttikā were the wives of the Moon, O descendant of Bharata. / Because of Dakṣa's curse he had no offspring by them, afflicted as he was by the disease of consumption.

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Having appeased him again, Soma regained the digits that had been consumed in his waning. / Hear the auspicious names of the mothers of the worlds:

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Now the wives of Kaśyapa, from whom this world was born: / Aditi, Diti, Danu, Kāṣṭhā, Ariṣṭā, Surasā, Ilā,

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Muni, Krodhavaśā, Tāmrā, Surabhi, Saramā, and Timi. / From Timi came the aquatic creatures, and wild beasts were the offspring of Saramā.

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From Surabhi came the buffaloes, cows, and other cloven-hoofed animals, O king. / From Tāmrā came hawks, vultures, and the like; from Muni, the hosts of apsarases.

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Biting serpents and the like, O king, were the offspring of Krodhavaśā. / From Ilā came all plants, and the Yātudhānas were the sons of Surasā.

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From Ariṣṭā came the gandharvas, and from Kāṣṭhā came the animals other than cloven-hoofed. / The sons of Danu were sixty-one; hear of the chief among them:

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Dvimūrdhan, Śambara, Ariṣṭa, Hayagrīva, Vibhāvasu, / Ayomukha, Śaṅkuśiras, Svarbhānu, Kapila, Aruṇa,

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Puloman, Vṛṣaparvan, Ekacakra, Anutāpana, / Dhūmrakeśa, Virūpākṣa, and the invincible Vipracitti.

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Namuci married Suprabhā, the daughter of Svarbhānu; / and the mighty Yayāti, the son of Nahuṣa, married Śarmiṣṭhā, the daughter of Vṛṣaparvan.

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And the four daughters of Vaiśvānara, who were fair of appearance: / Upadānavī, Hayaśiras, Pulomā, and Kālakā.

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Hiraṇyākṣa married Upadānavī, and Kratu married Hayaśiras, O king. / As for the two daughters of Vaiśvānara, Pulomā and Kālakā, Brahmā [asked Kaśyapa to marry them].

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Then the venerable Kaśyapa married them, urged by Brahmā. / The Paulomas and Kālakeyas were Dānavas skilled in battle.

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Sixty thousand of these destroyers of sacrifices born of those two, your father's father [Arjuna] / slew when he went to heaven, O king, all alone, pleasing Indra.

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Vipracitti begot one hundred and one sons upon Siṃhikā: / the eldest was Rāhu, and the other hundred were the Ketus, who attained the status of planets.

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Hear now in proper order the lineage of Aditi, / wherein the Lord Nārāyaṇa, the all-pervading one, descended by his own plenary portion.

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Vivasvat, Aryaman, Pūṣan, Tvaṣṭṛ, Savitṛ, Bhaga, / Dhātṛ, Vidhātṛ, Varuṇa, Mitra, Śatru, and Urukrama.

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From Vivasvat, Saṃjñā gave birth to the Manu Śrāddhadeva, / and that most fortunate woman bore twins: the god Yama and Yamī. / She also became a mare and gave birth to the two Nāsatyas on earth.

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From him Chāyā bore Śanaiścara, and then the Manu Sāvarṇi, / and a daughter, Tapatī, who chose Saṃvaraṇa as her husband.

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Aryaman's wife was Mātṛkā; their sons were the Carṣaṇis, / through whom the human race was fashioned by Brahmā.

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Pūṣan remained childless, an eater of ground meal, with broken teeth, / for formerly he laughed with bared teeth at [Rudra who was] angry at Dakṣa.

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Tvaṣṭṛ had a wife named Racanā, a daughter of the Daityas; / to them was born Sanniveśa, and the mighty Viśvarūpa.

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The hosts of gods chose him, although he was the nephew of their enemies, / when they were abandoned by their guru, the son of Aṅgiras, who was slighted.

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The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English

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Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit