Skandapurana 5.114

“That brahmin Trijāta there—what was his name, whose son was he, / of what lineage was he, and what was his appellation? Relate [this], O great-minded one.

What of those of noble family, or those rich in virtues, or those discerning in radiance and learning? / Even Trijāta was preferable, by whom his own abode was delivered.”

Sūta said: / “In the lineage of the sage Sāṅkṛti was that best of the twice-born born; / renowned as Prabhāva, the son of Nimi was given the name [Trijāta].”

Having thus restored the place, he built an auspicious temple / in the name of Trijāteśvara for the trident-bearing God of gods. // 4

Having worshipped him day and night, fully endowed with faith, / he went to heaven in his bodily form after some time. // 5

Whoever beholds him with true devotion and bathes him at the equinox, / in his family a trijāta is never born. // 6

The seers said: / Which lineages were lost, and which were re-established— / tell us their names, O son of Sūta, [along with] that city. // 7 // / Sūta said: / There, those of the Upamanyu lineage, those born of the Krauñca lineage, / those born of the Kaiśorya lineage, [and] the Traivaṇeyas, O best of brahmins, // 8

those four lineages did not return again, / which, beginning with Śuka and the others, had been lost out of fear of the Nāga. // 9

The remaining brahmins born in the lineages I shall describe to you: / those born in the Kauśika line are recalled as twenty-six. // 10

Those born in the Kaśyapa line are eighty-seven best brahmins; / those born in the Lakṣmaṇa line who arrived are twenty-one. // 11

Those lost there arrived again at that place, deeply grieved: / three Bhāradvājas arrived, and fourteen Kauṇḍinīyas; // 12

twenty of the Raitikas, and eight of the Pārāśaryas; / twenty-two of the Gargas, and twenty of the Hārītas; // 13

twenty-five of the Aurva-Bhārgava lineage are declared; / twenty-six of the Gautamas, and twenty Ālūbhāyanas; // 14

twenty-three of the Māṇḍavyas, and twenty-three Bahvṛcas; / of the distinguished Sāṅkṛtyas, exactly ten distinct [families]; // 15

likewise of the Āṅgirasas, five are proclaimed; / ten Ātreyas are counted, and likewise [ten] Śuklātreyas; // 16

five Vātsyas are proclaimed, and nine [and] seven Kautsas; / five Śāṇḍilya-Bhārgavas, and twenty Maudgalyas are remembered; // 17

Baudhāyanas and Kauśalas are declared to be thirty only; / fifty-five Atharvas, and seventy-seven Maunasas; // 18

thirty Yājuṣas are renowned, and twenty-seven Cyāvanas; / thirty-three Āgastyas, and ten Jaimineyas; // 19

fifty-five Naivṛtas, and seventy Pāṭhīna brahmins; / five Gobhilas, and five Kākva brahmins are remembered; // 20

three Auśanasas, and three Dāśārhas are declared; / sixty of those called Lokākhya, and seventy-two Aiṇiśas; // 21

seventy-seven of the Kāpiṣṭhalas, Śārkaras, and Dattas; / one hundred of the Śārkavas are declared, and seventy-seven Dārjyas; // 22

three settled Kātyāyanīs, and three Vaidiśas are remembered; / five Kṛṣṇātreyas, and likewise [five] Dattātreyas; // 23

one hundred in number of Nārāyaṇas, Śaunakeyas, and Jābālas; / Gopālas, Jāmadagnyas, Śālihotras, and Karṇikas; // 24

and Bhāgurāyaṇakas, Mātṛkas, and Traiṇavas— / all these foremost brahmins, in order, best of brahmins. // 25

For the honour of all these alone, O best of brahmins, / forty-eight [rules] were anciently spoken by the self-manifest [Brahmā]. // 26

All of them were separately assigned by the lotus-born [Brahmā]: / rites of twilight worship and water-offerings, rites born of the Vaiśvadeva, / śrāddhas, rites of the lunar fortnights, and ancestor-balls; // 27

along with the sacred thread, and all the ancestral invocations in full, / as well as the particular girdles of muñja-grass and the distinct tufts of hair are proclaimed. // 28

Having worshipped the God of gods, the Grandfather, / the trijāta, for his own renown, then made [these rules] for those lords of brahmins. // 29

The seers said: / How was Brahmā pleased by the great-souled trijāta? / How was the division of ritual actions made by that great-souled one? / Tell everything in full, for our curiosity is great. // 30

Sūta said: / For his sake, the Great-Grandfather was pleased by all the brahmins [saying]: / 'By him alone our entire abode was restored, O all-pervading Lord. // 31

Therefore, O all-pervading Lord, give him unsurpassed knowledge of the Veda, / by which the particular rituals may arise here in this best of cities; // 32

and so that by your favour, O lotus-born one, he may become a preceptor, / O Lord of gods, let such a rule be established.' // 33

Then Brahmā gave him the unsurpassed collection of mantras, / by which all the meaning of the Veda and sacrificial rituals are known. // 34

Then he said to them all, with his inner self deeply delighted: / 'This renowned one will be endowed with the meaning of the Veda. // 35

Known as Bhartṛyajña, skilled in sacrificial rituals, / whatever division of rituals he tells you, unhesitatingly, // 36

that must be done for heaven and liberation, enlightened by my word. / He will adapt the meanings of the Veda for all of you. // 37

And for those who went to other countries and places anywhere, / having left this place—this is the truth, O best of brahmins. // 38

Whatever rite he performs through understanding of the seat of the Veda, / his speech will never proceed into falsehood or sin.' // 39

Having spoken thus, the Lord of gods, the Grandfather, fell silent. / Bhartṛyajña too performed all those auspicious sacrificial rituals, // 40

for the welfare of the brahmins, solely for the meaning of revelation. / All those foremost brahmins are proclaimed to be of ten authorities. // 41

Thus in sixty-four lineages, those foremost brahmins / were brought together there by that great-souled trijāta. // 42

There arose fifteen hundred [brahmins] united together, / and common enjoyment and liberation were established for them by him. // 43

By a division of sixty-eight, there previously was the expenditure of lifespan; / there, and in the lineage, according to the count of men, // 44

from that time forth, it was established in common for all, / by the word of the trijāta, through which [they came] swiftly even from afar. // 45

Eminent brahmins arrive and the city grows. / Nor does anyone abandon it to go elsewhere out of distress, O twice-born.

Then it was abundantly filled again by their sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons in the thousands, / and by daughters' sons and sisters' sons.

That city keeps expanding, O twice-born, like shoots of dūrvā grass / sprouting node by node in countless ways.

Sūta said: / All this auspicious enumeration of gotras has been told to you, / as well as the recitation of the seers, which destroys all sins.

Whoever constantly recites or hears this with great devotion / shall never suffer the extinction of his lineage on this earth.

Likewise, he is freed from the sins born of life and death, / and he never witnesses separation from a loved one.

Thus ends the one hundred and fifteenth chapter, titled "The Description of the Seers' Gotras and the Procedure of the Sacrifice Performed by Bhartṛyajña," in the Story of the Sixty-Eight Sacred Fords, within the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.