Garudapurana 1.54

English (machine translation) 1.54

Language: English

1.54.18 — 1 part

1.54.1

Śrī Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 54
Hari said: / Āgnīdhra, Agnibāhu, Vapuṣmat, and Dyutimat, / Medhas, Medhātithi, Bhavya, and the son Śabala,

1.54.2

and Jyotiṣmat born as the tenth—these were the sons from Priyavrata. / Three sons, Medhas, Agnibāhu, and [his brother], were devoted to yoga;

1.54.3

remembering their past lives, highly fortunate, they did not desire kingship. / Dividing the seven continents, the king gave them to the seven.

1.54.4

Covering fifty crore yojanas in measure, / the earth rests upon the water, floating like a boat on the water of a river.

1.54.5

The two continents named Jambū and Plakṣa, and another is Śālmala, O Hara; / Kuśa, Krauñca, and Śāka, and Puṣkara is the seventh.

1.54.6

These seven continents are surrounded by seven oceans / containing salt, sugar-cane juice, wine, clarified butter, curd, milk, and water respectively.

1.54.7

Each continent and each ocean is twice the size [of the preceding], O bull-bannered Lord. / Situated on Jambūdvīpa is Mount Meru, one hundred thousand yojanas wide.

1.54.8

Its height is eighty-four thousand yojanas; / it has entered sixteen [thousand yojanas] beneath, and is thirty-two [thousand] wide at the summit.

1.54.9

Beneath it is sixteen thousand [yojanas], situated in the shape of a lotus pericarp. / Himavat, Hemakūṭa, and Niṣadha are to its south;

1.54.10

Nīla, Śveta, and Śṛṅgin are the boundary mountains to the north. / The eternal men, O Rudra, who dwell on Plakṣa and the others,

1.54.11

O Śaṅkara, have no condition of yugas at all among them. / From Āgnīdhra, the lord of Jambūdvīpa, there were nine sons:

1.54.12

Nābhi, Kiṃpuruṣa, Harivarṣa, Ilāvṛta, / Ramya, the one named Hiraṇmaya, Kuru, and Bhadrāśva.

1.54.13

and King Ketumāla. He gave them the realms named after themselves. / From Nābhi and Merudevī, O Hara, was born Ṛṣabha.

1.54.14

His son was named Bharata, who observed vows and dwelt at Śālagrāma. / Sumati was the son of Bharata, and his son was Taijasa.

1.54.15

His son was Indradyumna, after whom Parameṣṭhin is remembered; / Pratīhāra was his son, and Pratihartā was his son.

1.54.16

From him then was born a son, Prastāra; his son was the mighty Vibhu; / his son was Pṛthu; Nakta was his, and Gaya is remembered as Nakta’s son.

1.54.17

Nara was the son of Gaya; his son was Virāṭ; / after him came the wise, exceptionally splendid Bhauvana, who was his son.

1.54.18

Then came Tvaṣṭṛ, and Tvaṣṭṛ’s son was Virajas; Rajas also was his son; / Śatajit was the son of Rajas, and Viṣvagjyotis is remembered as his son.

Thus ends the fifty-fourth chapter, entitled 'Delineation of the Lineage of Priyavrata Useful for Describing the Cosmography', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

Linked texts (1)

Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit