Bhagavatapurana 9.2

English (machine translation) 9.2

Language: English

9.2.1

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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!"

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

Translations (1)

The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English

Linked texts (1)

Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit