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Matsyapurana 144.55

Matsyapurāṇa 144.55

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Sanskrit

144.55

adhārmikāśca ye kecit tānsarvānhanti sarvaśaḥ
udīcyānmadhyadeśāṃśca pārvatīyāṃstathaiva ca //

King Pramati of the Bhrigu family and Chândramasa gotra was born at the end of Svayambhuva Manu in the Sandhyâṃsa period, to inflict proper punishment on the sinners That king travelled all over the earth for 30 years and collected arms and ammunitions, elephants, horses and chariots and marched with a vast army consisting of horses and elephants and accompanied by 100 000 Brâhmaṇa soldiers armed with various kinds of weapons, against the Mlecchas and destroyed them After killing all the Śûdra kings he annihilated all the hypocrites After destroying all the sinners and subduing the people living in the North, central regions the mountaineers, the inhabitants in the East and West the residents on the Vindhyas, the Deccanis, the Dravidians the Singhalese, the inhabitants of the Mleccha countries (Kâbul and Kandhara), the Paradas, the Pahlavas, the Yavanas, the Śakas, the Tuṣaras, the Śvetas, the Pulindas the Barbaras, the Khasas, the Lampakas the Andhrakas, the Daradas, the Halikas, he exterminated the Śúdras—51 58

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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