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Markandeyapurana 80.5

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 80.5

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Sanskrit

80.5

sutapāścāmitābhāśca mukhyāścaiva tridhā surāḥ /
viṃśakaḥ kathitāścaiṣāṃ trayāṇāṃ triguṇo gaṇaḥ //

And the Sutapas and Amitābhas and Mukhyas shall be the gods in three divisions; and each group of these three is said[11] to be composed of twenty, and to have the three good qualities. Tapa and Tapas,[12] and Śakra, Dyuti, Jyotis, Prabhākara, Prabhāsa, Dayita, Gharma, Tejas, Raśmi,[13] Vakratu, and so forth are the Sutapas, the twenty-fold group of gods. Prabhu, Vibhu, Vibhāsa and others are likewise another group of twenty. Hear also from me the third group of Amita gods; Dama, Dānta, Ṛta, Soma, and Vinta and the rest are the group of twenty. And these shall be celebrated as Mukhya[14] gods, rulers of the manvantara—they are verily the sons of Mārīca and of the Prajāpati Kāśyapa, and they shall be in the future during Sāvarṇa Manu’s period. Now the lord of them, O muni, shall be Bali Vairocani, the Daitya who dwells in Pātāla at present, bound by a compact.[15]

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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