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Skandapurana 5.139

Skandapurāṇa 5.139

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5.139.1

.. ṛṣaya ūcuḥ .. ..
yadetadbhavatā proktaṃ putro mānuṣavigrahaḥ ..
bhaviṣyati yamasyātra kaḥ saṃbhūtaḥ sa sūtaja .. 1 ..

The seers said:
Regarding what was spoken by you: "A son with a human form / will be born to Yama here"—who was he that was born, O son of Sūta?

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5.139.2

.. sūta uvāca .. ..
tasya putraḥ samutpannaḥ pāṃḍoḥ kṣetre mahītale ..
yudhiṣṭhira iti khyātaḥ sarvakṣatriyapuṃgavaḥ .. 2 ..

Sūta said:
His son was born on the surface of the earth in the field of Pāṇḍu, / renowned as Yudhiṣṭhira, the foremost of all kṣatriyas,

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5.139.3

rājasūyo makho yena iṣṭaḥ sampūrṇadakṣiṇaḥ ..
sarvānbhūmipatīnvīryātsaṃvidhāya karapradān .. 3 ..

by whom the Rājasūya sacrifice was offered with complete sacrificial fees, / having reduced all rulers of the earth to tribute-payers by his valour.

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5.139.4

aśvamedhāḥ kṛtāḥ paṃca tathā sampūrṇadakṣiṇāḥ ..
bhrāmayitvā hayaṃ bhūmau paścātprāpa sa sadgatim .. 4 ..

Five horse-sacrifices were performed [by him], likewise with complete sacrificial fees; / after making the horse wander over the earth, he later attained the good destination.

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5.139.5

eṣṭavyā bahavaḥ putrā yadyekopi gayāṃ vrajet ..
yajeta vā'śvamedhena nīlaṃ vā vṛṣamutsṛjet .. 5 ..

Many sons are to be desired, [hoping] that even one might go to Gayā, / or offer a horse-sacrifice, or release a dark blue bull.

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5.139.6

yadanena vṛtaṃ mattaḥ putritvaṃ sumahātmanā ..
hayamedhānmahāyajñānkartā syādasya vai sutaḥ .. 6 ..

Since sonship was sought from me by that very great-souled one, / his son indeed became the performer of the great sacrifices, the horse-sacrifices.

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5.139.7

manyeta kṛtakṛtyatvaṃ yena putreṇa dharmapaḥ ..
anyaiḥ putraśataiḥ kiṃ vā vaṃśānuddhārakārakaiḥ .. 7 ..

The guardian of dharma would consider himself accomplished of purpose by such a son; / or what use are hundreds of other sons who do not rescue their lineage?

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5.139.8

.. sūta uvāca .. ..
etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ dharmarājasutodbhavam ..
ākhyānaṃ brāhmaṇaśreṣṭhā dharmavṛddhikaraṃ param .. 8 .. .

Sūta said:
All this narrative of the birth of the son of Dharmarāja, / which brings about an increase of dharma in the highest degree, has been related to you, O best of brahmins.

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5.139.140

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe śrīhāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye dharmarājaputrākhyānavarṇanaṃnāma catvāriṃśaduttara śatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 140 ..

Thus ends the one hundred and fortieth chapter, entitled "Description of the Narrative of Dharmarāja's Son," in the Māhātmya of the glorious Hāṭakeśvara Field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skanda Purāṇa.

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