Markandeyapurana 78
English (machine translation) 78
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- 78.35 — 2 parts
78.1
Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then the gods and divine seers who had assembled praised the Sun / with speech of the entire three worlds who was about to be pared down.
78.2
The gods said:
"Salutations to you whose nature is the Ṛgveda! Salutations to you whose nature is the Sāmaveda! / Salutations to you whose form is the nature of the Yajurveda, who possess the abode of the Sāman chants!
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Salutations to you who are the sole abode of knowledge, by whom darkness is dispelled, / whose nature is pure light, who are completely purified, of spotless self!
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To the foremost, to the most excellent, to the transcendent Supreme Self, / salutations to you whose nature pervades the entire universe, whose form is the self!
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This delightful, best of hymns should be heard with faith by men; / having become a disciple, established in meditation, and having given what should be given to the guru,
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it should not be heard by those who are empty-minded, so that this may be fruitful— / to [you], the cause of all things, the ultimate state of those whose minds possess knowledge!
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Salutations to you whose nature is the sun, whose nature is the essence of light! / Salutations to you, the maker of light, and salutations to the maker of the day!
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And salutations to the cause of the night, the maker of twilight and moonlight! / You are all this universe, O Lord; as you revolve,
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the entire cosmic egg, with everything moving and unmoving, revolves, set in motion. / Touched by your rays, all this becomes pure.
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Purity of water and other [elements] is produced by the touch of your rays; / dharma such as oblations and gifts does not lead to benefit
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as long as this world is not united with your rays. / All these verses are indeed your Ṛg hymns, and these other ones are the Yajus texts;
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and all the Sāman chants issue forth from your body. / You consist of the Ṛgveda, O Lord of the universe! You alone consist of the Yajurveda;
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and because you consist of the Sāmaveda, therefore, O Lord, you consist of the three Vedas. / You alone are the form of brahman, both the higher and the lower;
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likewise, you abide as the formed and the formless, the subtle and the gross form; / you consist of moments, kāṣṭhās, and other [divisions], your form is time, consisting of destruction. / Be pleased, according to your will, to pacify your own form and brilliance!"
78.15
Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Being thus praised by the gods and divine seers, / that imperishable mass of splendours then shed his own brilliance.
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That brilliance of his which consisted of the Ṛgveda: by that the earth will be formed; / the sky by that which consisted of the Yajurveda; and heaven by that of the Sun which consisted of the Sāmaveda.
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The fifteen parts of brilliance that were pared away by Tvaṣṭṛ— / by that very great-souled Tvaṣṭṛ, the trident of Śarva was fashioned;
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the discus of Viṣṇu, and the very terrible spikes of the Vasus, / and likewise the spear of Pāvaka, and the palanquin of the Bestower of Wealth;
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and whatever fierce weapons belong to the other enemies of the asuras, / and of the yakṣas and vidyādharas—all those the maker of the universe fashioned.
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And after that, the all-pervading Lord bears the sixteenth part; / that brilliance of his was pared away in fifteen parts by Viśvakarman.
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Then, assuming the form of a stallion, the Sun went to the Northern Kurus, / and there saw Saṃjñā bearing the form of a mare.
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And seeing him coming, out of apprehension of another male, / she went toward him, intent on protecting her rear.
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And then, as the two joined there, their nostrils met; / and Nāsatya and Dasra, two sons, issued from the mare's mouth.
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And at the end of the semen, Revanta was born, armed with a sword and shield, / wearing armour, mounted on a horse, and provided with arrows and a quiver.
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Then the Sun revealed his matchless true form; / and seeing his true form, she felt joy.
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And bringing this beloved wife Saṃjñā, who had resumed her own form, / to his own abode, the Sun dispersed the darkness.
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Then her first son became Vaivasvata Manu. / And the second son, Yama, became of righteous judgment because of a curse.
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"Worms will take flesh from his foot and fall to the surface of the earth"— / thus his father himself set an end to his curse.
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And because he possessed righteous judgment and was impartial toward friend as well as foe, / the dispeller of darkness appointed him to that office in the southern quarter.
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And the Yamunā was born as a river flowing within Mount Kalinda. / The two Aśvins were made the physicians of the gods by their magnanimous father.
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Revanta too was appointed to the lordship over the Guhyakas. / Now hear from me the appointment of the children of Chāyā-Saṃjñā.
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The eldest son of Chāyā-Saṃjñā was equal to his elder brother Manu; / therefore that son of the Sun received the name Sāvarṇi.
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He too will become a Manu when Bali is Indra. / And Śanaiścara was appointed by his father to a place among the planets.
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Their third [child], a daughter named Tapatī, / obtained from King Saṃvaraṇa a son, Kuru, a lord of men.
78.35
I shall relate to you the seventh period of that Vaivasvata Manu: / his sons the kings, the ṛṣis, the gods, and the sovereign of the gods.
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Thus ends the seventy-eighth chapter, entitled "The Origin of Vaivasvata," in the Sāvarṇika Manvantara of the glorious Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.
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Seventy-ninth Chapter - 79
Translations (1)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
Linked texts (1)
- Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit