Bhagavatapurana 9.21

English (machine translation) 9.21

Language: English

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Śrī Śuka said:
The sons of Vitatha were Manyu; then from Manyu came Bṛhatkṣatra, Jaya, / Mahāvīrya, Nara, and Garga; and Saṅkṛti was Nara's son.

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Guru and Rantideva were sons of Saṅkṛti, O son of Pāṇḍu; / the greatness of Rantideva is sung both here and in the hereafter.

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Though his wealth was like the sky, giving away whatever he obtained even while desiring food, / penniless, steadfast, he suffered hardship together with his family.

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Forty-eight days passed while he did not even drink water; / in the morning, food prepared with ghee, milk-rice, porridge, and water arrived.

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While his family was plunged in hardship and trembling with hunger and thirst, / just as he was about to eat, a brāhmaṇa guest arrived at that time.

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Treating him with honor and endowed with faith, he distributed food to him, / seeing Hari everywhere; having eaten, the twice-born departed.

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Then, as the king divided the remainder and was about to eat, / another [guest], a śūdra, arrived, and he gave him a share while remembering Hari.

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When the śūdra had gone, another guest came, surrounded by dogs: / "O king, give food to me and my pack, for we are hungry!"

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Respectfully offering what remained, with high honor, / the noble king gave that too and bowed down to the dogs and the keeper of dogs.

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Only water remained, and that was just enough to satisfy one person; / as he was about to drink, an outcaste came: "Give water to an impure man like me!"

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Hearing his pathetic words, indicative of immense exhaustion, / he was deeply moved with compassion and spoke these nectar-like words:

"I do not desire from the Lord the supreme station endowed with the eight mystic perfections, nor even freedom from rebirth; / I take upon myself the affliction of all embodied beings, dwelling within them so that they may become free from sorrow.

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Hunger, thirst, exhaustion, trembling of the body, misery, / fatigue, grief, despondency, and delusion—all have departed from this wretched creature who desires to live, through my offering of life-giving water."

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Having spoken thus, the steadfast king, naturally compassionate, / gave the water to the outcaste, though dying of thirst himself.

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The rulers of the three worlds, who bestow rewards on those who seek them, / revealed their true forms to him, having assumed illusory shapes created by Viṣṇu.

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Bowing to them, free from attachment and devoid of desire, / he fixed his supreme mind on the Lord Vāsudeva with devotion.

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As he fixed his mind solely upon the Lord without pursuing any other goal, / the illusion consisting of the gunas dissolved away like a dream, O king.

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By the power of his association, all those who followed Rantideva / became yogis, wholly devoted to Nārāyaṇa.

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From Garga came Śini, and from him Gārgya; thus brāhmaṇas arose from the kṣatriya line; / Duritakṣaya was born of Mahāvīrya, and his sons were Trayyāruṇi, Kavi,

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and Puṣkarāruṇi, who in this lineage attained the status of brāhmaṇas; / Bṛhatkṣatra's son was Hastin, after whom Hastināpura is named.

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Ajamīḍha, Dvimīḍha, and Purumīḍha were the sons of Hastin; / from Ajamīḍha descended Priyamedha and other twice-born.

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From Ajamīḍha was born Bṛhadiṣu; his son was Bṛhaddhanu; / from him came Bṛhatkāya; his son was Jayadratha.

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His son was Viśada; to him was born Śyenajit; / Rucirāśva, Dṛḍhahanu, Kāśya, and Vatsa were his sons.

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Rucirāśva's son was Pāra; Pṛthusena was his son; / Pāra's son was Nīpa, and he had a hundred sons.

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In Kṛtvī, the daughter of Śuka, he fathered Brahmadatta; / a yogi, he begat in his wife Go a son named Viṣvaksena.

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By the instruction of Jaigīṣavya, he indeed composed a treatise on yoga; / from him came Udaksena; from him Bhallāṭa—these are the descendants of Bṛhadiṣu.

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Yavīnara was the son of Dvimīḍha; his son is remembered as Kṛtimant; / his son was Satyadhṛti by name; [his son was] Dṛḍhanemi, the father of Supārśva.

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From Supārśva came Sumati; his son was Sannatimant; / Kṛtī, having attained yoga from Hiraṇyanābha and others, sang the six

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saṃhitās of the eastern Sāmans. From him came Nīpa, and then Udgrāyudha; / his son was Kṣemya; then Suvīra; Ripuñjaya was the son of Suvīra.

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Then came one named Bahuratha; Purumīḍha was childless. / By Nalinī, Ajamīḍha had Nīla; and Śānti was his son.

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Śānti's son was Suśānti; from him came Puruja; then Arka; / Bharmyāśva was his son; he had five sons, Mudgala and others:

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Yavīnara, Bṛhadviśva, Kāmpilla, and Sañjaya were the sons. / Bharmyāśva said: "These five [sons] of mine are capable of protecting

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the realms (alam)"; thus they were named the Pañcālas. / From Mudgala arose the lineage of brāhmaṇas known as the Maudgalyas.

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From Mudgala, son of Bharmyāśva, came twins: the male was Divodāsa, / and the daughter was Ahalyā, in whom Śatānanda was born from Gautama.

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His son was Satyadhṛti, skilled in the science of archery; / his son was Śaradvant, whose semen, indeed, upon seeing Urvaśī,

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fell into a clump of reeds; from that arose an auspicious pair of twins. / Seeing them out of pity while out hunting, Śāntanu took them: / the boy was Kṛpa, and the daughter was Kṛpī, who became the wife of Droṇa.

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The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English

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Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit