Mudgalapurana 2.6: dakṣakanyāvaṃśavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṣṭho'dhyāyaḥ

Homage to the glorious Gaṇeśa.

Mudgala said: / Then Svāyambhuva went and bowed down to Brahmā, / and together with Śatarūpā, the two departed by his command.

[Khaṇḍa 2, Chapter 7, Page 14] The lord Manu, bearer of weapons, ruled with dharma; / endowed with dharma, of great splendor, he was devoted to the Gāṇapatya tradition.

Having begotten two sons and three daughters with Śatarūpā, / O Prajāpati, solely through sexual union, Manu shone brightly.

Priyavrata and Uttānapāda were the two sons of that wise one, / and ākūti, Devahūti, and Prasūti were the fair-eyed daughters.

Three daughters of that great-souled Manu are declared. / He gave Prasūti to you, and likewise Ākūti to Ruci;

and Manu himself gave Devahūti to Kardama there. / Such things the great king did, prompted by Brahmā.

Kardama assiduously pleased Viṣṇu by ascetic penance. / After a hundred years [Viṣṇu] was pleased, and went to bestow a boon upon the twice-born.

He begged of him: "Become my son, O Lord of the universe!" / Having granted the boon, Viṣṇu himself swiftly went to Vaikuṇṭha.

Then Viṣṇu, bearing the form of Kapila, in Devahūti / attained sonship to him by the power of the boon's bestowal.

In Ākūti a supreme mind-born pair was born to Ruci: / Yajña and the goddess Dakṣiṇā, by whom the world was nurtured.

The illustrious Yajña, [an incarnation of] Viṣṇu, begot twelve auspicious sons / upon Dakṣiṇā, and they are known as the Yāma gods.

Then the lord Yajña, practicing penance together with his wife, / constantly pleased the Lord of Gaṇas by the path of yoga.

Having fashioned a four-armed image of Gaṇeśa made of jewels, / accompanied daily by hosts of sages, filled with devotion, he worshipped him.

Then Gaṇapati, delighted, bestowed upon him the most wondrous yoga; / by that he became the foremost of yogī-lords, devoted to Gaṇeśa.

Yajña constantly recited with joy the mantra "Heramba"; / filled with joy, he imparted the Gāṇapatya yoga to his disciples.

Prajāpati Dakṣa begot daughters upon Prasūti; / twenty-four are recounted, portions of Śakti, the mothers of all.

Śraddhā, Lakṣmī, Dhṛti, Tuṣṭi, Puṣṭi, Medhā, and Kriyā, / Buddhi, Lajjā, Vapus, Śānti, Siddhi, and Kīrti—thirteen [in all]—

Dakṣa, with delighted mind, gave to Dharma for wives, O sage, / prompted by Brahmā. Now I shall tell you their offspring.

Kāma is recorded as the son of Śraddhā, and Artha became the son of Lakṣmī; / Niyama was the son of Dhṛti, and the son of Tuṣṭi was named Santoṣa;

upon Puṣṭi the son Lābha was born; Śama is recorded as the son of Medhā; / and Daṇḍa and Samaya are remembered as the two sons of Kriyā;

Bodha was the son of Buddhi, and Apramāda was proclaimed; / Vinaya was born of Lajjā, and Vyavasāya from Vapus;

Kṣema was the son of Śānti, and Siddha became the son of Siddhi; / Yaśas was declared the son of Kīrti. These are the sons of Dharma.

To Kāma was born the son Harṣa, and Ānanda is recorded as the other. / Thus this joyful creation of Dharma has been declared.

In connection with this, I will speak of the sorrow-bringing creation of Adharma. / Likewise, behind Brahmā a pair was born:

Adharma and Hiṃsā. Anṛta is remembered as their son, / and Nikṛti is declared as the daughter; from the two, Bhaya was born,

and Naraka; likewise Māyā and Vedanā are remembered as the two daughters. / (

[Khaṇḍa 2, Chapter 6, Page 15]) From Bhaya upon Māyā was born Mṛtyu, who snatches away all.

And from Naraka upon Vedanā was born Duḥkha, the cause of worldly transmigration. / From Mṛtyu were born Vyādhi, Jarā, Śoka, Tṛṣṇā, and Krodha.

All these resulting in sorrow are recorded as born of Adharma, O sage; / and they have no progeny, for all of them have upward-drawn semen.

Eleven daughters remained; learn of their lineage: / he gave Satī to Rudra, and Khyāti to Bhṛgu;

Sambhūti to Marīci, and Smṛti to Aṅgiras; / likewise Prīti to Pulastya, and Kṣamā to Pulaha;

Santati to Kratu, and Anasūyā to Atri; / he gave Ūrjā to Vasiṣṭha, O sage, and Svāhā to Agni;

and Dakṣa, greatly rejoiced, gave the goddess Svadhā to the ancestors. / By the direct command of Brahmā, I shall tell you their progeny.

From Śaṅkara upon Satī was born Kārtikeya of great strength, / and he was consecrated as commander-in-chief of the army of the gods by the Creator.

From Bhṛgu upon Khyāti was born Lakṣmī, beloved of Nārāyaṇa, / and the two gods Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ, who are known as the sons-in-law of Meru.

Āyati and Niyati were the two daughters of Meru, O sage; / from Dhātṛ and Vidhātṛ upon them two excellent sons were born:

Mṛkaṇḍa, and another, Prāṇa; Mārkaṇḍeya was the son of Mṛkaṇḍa, / and the radiant Vedaśiras is declared to be the son of Prāṇa.

Marīci also begot Pūrṇamāsa upon Sambhūti, / as well as four daughters endowed with all auspicious marks:

Kṛṣi, Vṛṣṭi, Kṛṣṭi, and the fourth, Apaciti, O sage; / Virajas and Parvata were the two sons of Pūrṇamāsa.

And Kṣamā bore sons from Pulaha, the Prajāpati:
Karmaśreṣṭha, Varīyāṃs, and Sahiṣṇu, the eminent sage,

as well as a son, radiant with austerity, named Vanakavīnāsa.
Now I will describe the lineage of Atri; listen with respect, O Śaunaka.

Atri engendered auspicious sons upon Anasūyā:
Soma, Durvāsas, and Datta, the holder of yoga.

These three gods are declared to be the sons of the great-souled Atri—
Brahmā, Bhava, and Viṣṇu, who uphold the progeny by a fraction of their portions.

Upon Smṛti, from Aṅgiras, was born fair-eyed Sinīvālī,
as well as the daughters Kuhū, Rākā, and devoted Anumati.

Upon Prīti, from Pulastya, the lord of yogins, a son not born of a womb arose;
in his previous birth this lord of brāhmaṇas was celebrated as Agastya.

Likewise Devabāhu, and a daughter renowned as splendid in all her limbs.
Upon Santati, Kratu generated sixty thousand sons.

They are all known as the Vālakhilyas, whose seed is drawn up.
The powerful Vasiṣṭha begot seven sons upon Ūrjā:

a lotus-petal-eyed daughter, [and the sons] Citraketu, Surocaka,
Virajas, Mitra, Ulbaṇa, the supreme Vasubhṛt,

Dhumān, and others, Śakti and the rest—the seven sons of great splendour.
That fire who is of Rudra’s nature [begot] upon Svāhā three sons,

and the radiant one generated them; they are celebrated as the fires:
Pāvaka, Pavamāna, and Śuci. They engendered sons,

fifteen each indeed—forty-nine fires.
All are declared radiant, all share in the sacrifices.

Pavamāna is celebrated as the [fire] produced by churning, together with his sons;
Pāvaka is spoken of as lightning, together with his sons, agreed upon by the scriptures;

and that fire which burns in the sun, together with his sons, is known as Śuci.
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section 2, chapter 7, page 16) All-pervading, of Rudra’s nature, that fire is called the son of Brahmā.

The Agniṣvāttas are bodiless, while the Barhiṣads are known to have limbs.
They are the ancestors, and Svadhā bore two daughters to them:

Menā and Dharaṇī by name, both supreme knowers of Brahman.
Menā bore Maināka and Krauñca from Himavat, O sage,

and Gaṅgā, the purifier of the worlds, and Pārvatī, the supreme goddess.
Both of them obtained God Śaṅkara as an excellent husband.

Satī was propitiated by the king of mountains and by Menā through asceticism;
by the power of the granting of a boon, she became their daughter Pārvatī.

Dharaṇī, the wife of Mount Meru, gave birth to two daughters, O Prajāpati:
Āyati and Niyati, who were spoken of before.

This lineage among the daughters of Dakṣa has been recounted by me;
it grants the fruit of all desires to anyone who reads or hears it.

Om tat sat. Thus ends the sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Lineage of Dakṣa's Daughters', in the story of Ekadanta, in the second section of the glorious and final Purāṇopaniṣad, the venerable Maudgala Mahāpurāṇa.