Vishnupurana 4.20

4.20.1

śrīparāśara uvāca:
parīkṣito janamejayaśrutasenograsenabhīmasenāś catvāraḥ putrāḥ ||

PARÍKSHIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhímasena. The son of Jahnu was Suratha; his son was Vidúratha; his son was Sárvabhauma; his son was Jayasena Árávin; his son was Ayutáyus; his son was Akrodhana; one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Riksha; his son was Dilípa; his son was Pratípa, who had three sons, Devápi, Śántanu, and Báhlíka. The first adopted in childhood a forest life, and Śántanu became king. Of him this verse is spread through the earth; "Śántanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śánti)."

4.20.2

jahnos tu suratho nāmātmajo babhūva ||

PARÍKSHIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhímasena. The son of Jahnu was Suratha; his son was Vidúratha; his son was Sárvabhauma; his son was Jayasena Árávin; his son was Ayutáyus; his son was Akrodhana; one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Riksha; his son was Dilípa; his son was Pratípa, who had three sons, Devápi, Śántanu, and Báhlíka. The first adopted in childhood a forest life, and Śántanu became king. Of him this verse is spread through the earth; "Śántanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śánti)."

4.20.3

tasya ca vidūrathaḥ |
vidūrathasya sārvabhaumaḥ sārvabhaumāj jayatsenas tasmād ārādhitas tataś cāyutāyur ayutāyor akrodhanaḥ |
tasmād devātithiḥ |
tato ṛkṣaḥ ||

PARÍKSHIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhímasena. The son of Jahnu was Suratha; his son was Vidúratha; his son was Sárvabhauma; his son was Jayasena Árávin; his son was Ayutáyus; his son was Akrodhana; one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Riksha; his son was Dilípa; his son was Pratípa, who had three sons, Devápi, Śántanu, and Báhlíka. The first adopted in childhood a forest life, and Śántanu became king. Of him this verse is spread through the earth; "Śántanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śánti)."

4.20.4

ṛkṣād bhīmasenas tataś ca dilīpaḥ |
dilīpāt pratīpaḥ |
tasyāpi devāpiśāṃtanubāhlīkasaṃjñās trayaḥ putrā babhūvuḥ |
devāpir bāla evāraṇyaṃ viveśa ||

PARÍKSHIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhímasena. The son of Jahnu was Suratha; his son was Vidúratha; his son was Sárvabhauma; his son was Jayasena Árávin; his son was Ayutáyus; his son was Akrodhana; one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Riksha; his son was Dilípa; his son was Pratípa, who had three sons, Devápi, Śántanu, and Báhlíka. The first adopted in childhood a forest life, and Śántanu became king. Of him this verse is spread through the earth; "Śántanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śánti)."

4.20.4.p1

śāṃtanus tu mahīpālo 'bhavat |
ayaṃ ca tasya ślokaḥ pṛthivyāṃ gīyate |

PARÍKSHIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhímasena. The son of Jahnu was Suratha; his son was Vidúratha; his son was Sárvabhauma; his son was Jayasena Árávin; his son was Ayutáyus; his son was Akrodhana; one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Riksha; his son was Dilípa; his son was Pratípa, who had three sons, Devápi, Śántanu, and Báhlíka. The first adopted in childhood a forest life, and Śántanu became king. Of him this verse is spread through the earth; "Śántanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śánti)."

4.20.5

yaṃ yaṃ karābhyāṃ spṛśati jīrṇaṃ yauvanam eti saḥ
śāntiṃ cāpnoti yenāgryāṃ karmaṇā tena śāṃtanuḥ //

PARÍKSHIT, the son of Kuru, had four sons, Janamejaya, Śrutasena, Ugrasena, and Bhímasena. The son of Jahnu was Suratha; his son was Vidúratha; his son was Sárvabhauma; his son was Jayasena Árávin; his son was Ayutáyus; his son was Akrodhana; one of his sons was Devatithi, and another was called Riksha; his son was Dilípa; his son was Pratípa, who had three sons, Devápi, Śántanu, and Báhlíka. The first adopted in childhood a forest life, and Śántanu became king. Of him this verse is spread through the earth; "Śántanu is his name, because if he lays his hands upon an old man, he restores him to youth, and by him men obtain tranquillity (śánti)."

4.20.6

tasya śāṃtano rāṣṭre dvādaśavarṣāṇi devo na vavarṣa ||

In the kingdom over which Śántanu ruled there was no rain for twelve years. Apprehensive that the country would become a desert, the king assembled the Brahmans, and asked them why no rain fell, and what fault he had committed. They told him that he was as it were a younger brother married before an elder, for he was in the enjoyment of the earth, which was the right of his elder brother Devápi. "What then am I to do?" said the Rájá: to which they replied, "Until the gods shall be displeased with Devápi, by his declining from the path of righteousness, the kingdom is his, and to him therefore you should resign it." When the minister of the king, Asmarisárin, heard this, he collected a number of ascetics who taught doctrines opposed to those of the Vedas, and sent them into the forest; where meeting with Devápi, they perverted the understanding of the simple-minded prince, and led him to adopt heretical notions. In the meantime, Śántanu being much distressed to think that he had been guilty of the offence intimated by the Brahmans, sent them before him into the woods, and then proceeded thither himself, to restore the kingdom to his elder brother. When the Brahmans arrived at the hermitage of Devápi, they informed him, that, according to the doctrines of the Vedas, succession to a kingdom was the right of the elder brother: but he entered into discussion with them, and in various ways advanced arguments which had the defect of being contrary to the precepts of the Vedas. When the Brahmans heard this, they turned to Śántanu, and said, "Come hither, Rájá; you need give yourself no further trouble in this matter; the dearth is at an end: this man is fallen from his state, for he has uttered words of disrespect to the authority of the eternal, untreated Veda; and when the elder brother is degraded, there is no sin in the prior espousals of his junior." Śántanu thereupon returned to his capital, and administered the government as before; and his elder brother Devápi being degraded from his caste by repeating doctrines contrary to the Vedas, Indra poured down abundant rain, which was followed by plentiful harvests.

4.20.7

tataś cāśeṣarāṣṭravināśam avekṣyāsau rājā brāhmaṇān apṛcchat |
kasmād asmadrāṣṭre devo na varṣati ko mamāparādha iti |
te tam ūcuḥ |
agrajasya te 'rheyam avanis tvayā bhujyate parivettā tvam ity uktaḥ sa punas tān apṛcchat |
kiṃ mayā vidheyam iti |
te punar apy ūcuḥ |
yāvad devāpir na patanādibhir doṣair abhibhūyate tāvat tasyārhaṃ rājyam |
tad alam etena tasmai dīyatām ity ukte tasya mantripravareṇāśmasāriṇātatrāraṇye tapasvino vedavādavirodhavaktāraḥ prayuktāḥ ||

In the kingdom over which Śántanu ruled there was no rain for twelve years. Apprehensive that the country would become a desert, the king assembled the Brahmans, and asked them why no rain fell, and what fault he had committed. They told him that he was as it were a younger brother married before an elder, for he was in the enjoyment of the earth, which was the right of his elder brother Devápi. "What then am I to do?" said the Rájá: to which they replied, "Until the gods shall be displeased with Devápi, by his declining from the path of righteousness, the kingdom is his, and to him therefore you should resign it." When the minister of the king, Asmarisárin, heard this, he collected a number of ascetics who taught doctrines opposed to those of the Vedas, and sent them into the forest; where meeting with Devápi, they perverted the understanding of the simple-minded prince, and led him to adopt heretical notions. In the meantime, Śántanu being much distressed to think that he had been guilty of the offence intimated by the Brahmans, sent them before him into the woods, and then proceeded thither himself, to restore the kingdom to his elder brother. When the Brahmans arrived at the hermitage of Devápi, they informed him, that, according to the doctrines of the Vedas, succession to a kingdom was the right of the elder brother: but he entered into discussion with them, and in various ways advanced arguments which had the defect of being contrary to the precepts of the Vedas. When the Brahmans heard this, they turned to Śántanu, and said, "Come hither, Rájá; you need give yourself no further trouble in this matter; the dearth is at an end: this man is fallen from his state, for he has uttered words of disrespect to the authority of the eternal, untreated Veda; and when the elder brother is degraded, there is no sin in the prior espousals of his junior." Śántanu thereupon returned to his capital, and administered the government as before; and his elder brother Devápi being degraded from his caste by repeating doctrines contrary to the Vedas, Indra poured down abundant rain, which was followed by plentiful harvests.

4.20.8

tair asyātiṛjumater mahīpatiputrasya buddhir vedavirodhamārgānusāriṇy akriyata ||

In the kingdom over which Śántanu ruled there was no rain for twelve years. Apprehensive that the country would become a desert, the king assembled the Brahmans, and asked them why no rain fell, and what fault he had committed. They told him that he was as it were a younger brother married before an elder, for he was in the enjoyment of the earth, which was the right of his elder brother Devápi. "What then am I to do?" said the Rájá: to which they replied, "Until the gods shall be displeased with Devápi, by his declining from the path of righteousness, the kingdom is his, and to him therefore you should resign it." When the minister of the king, Asmarisárin, heard this, he collected a number of ascetics who taught doctrines opposed to those of the Vedas, and sent them into the forest; where meeting with Devápi, they perverted the understanding of the simple-minded prince, and led him to adopt heretical notions. In the meantime, Śántanu being much distressed to think that he had been guilty of the offence intimated by the Brahmans, sent them before him into the woods, and then proceeded thither himself, to restore the kingdom to his elder brother. When the Brahmans arrived at the hermitage of Devápi, they informed him, that, according to the doctrines of the Vedas, succession to a kingdom was the right of the elder brother: but he entered into discussion with them, and in various ways advanced arguments which had the defect of being contrary to the precepts of the Vedas. When the Brahmans heard this, they turned to Śántanu, and said, "Come hither, Rájá; you need give yourself no further trouble in this matter; the dearth is at an end: this man is fallen from his state, for he has uttered words of disrespect to the authority of the eternal, untreated Veda; and when the elder brother is degraded, there is no sin in the prior espousals of his junior." Śántanu thereupon returned to his capital, and administered the government as before; and his elder brother Devápi being degraded from his caste by repeating doctrines contrary to the Vedas, Indra poured down abundant rain, which was followed by plentiful harvests.

4.20.9

rājā ca śāṃtanur dvijavacanotpannaparivedanaśokas tān brāhmaṇān agraṇīkṛtyāgrajarājyapradānāyāraṇyaṃ jagāma |
tadāśramam upagatāś ca tam avanīpatiputraṃ devāpim upatasthuḥ |
te brāhmaṇā vedavādānubaddhāni vacāṃsi rājyam agrajena kartavyam ity arthavanti tam ūcuḥ |
asāv api devāpir vedavādavirodhiyuktidūṣitam anekaprakāraṃ tān āha |
tatas te brāhmaṇāḥ śāṃtanum ūcuḥ |
āgaccha bho rājann alam atrātinirbandhena praśānta evāsāv anāvṛṣṭidoṣaḥ patito 'yam anādikālam ahitavedavacanadūṣaṇoccāraṇāt |
patite cāgraje naiva pārivedyaṃ bhavatīty uktaḥ śāṃtanuḥ svapuram āgatya rājyam akarot |
vedavādavirodhivacanoccāraṇadūṣite ca tasmin devāpāv akhilasya niṣpattaye vavarṣa bhagavān parjanyaḥ |
bāhlīkasya somadattaḥ putro 'bhūt ||

In the kingdom over which Śántanu ruled there was no rain for twelve years. Apprehensive that the country would become a desert, the king assembled the Brahmans, and asked them why no rain fell, and what fault he had committed. They told him that he was as it were a younger brother married before an elder, for he was in the enjoyment of the earth, which was the right of his elder brother Devápi. "What then am I to do?" said the Rájá: to which they replied, "Until the gods shall be displeased with Devápi, by his declining from the path of righteousness, the kingdom is his, and to him therefore you should resign it." When the minister of the king, Asmarisárin, heard this, he collected a number of ascetics who taught doctrines opposed to those of the Vedas, and sent them into the forest; where meeting with Devápi, they perverted the understanding of the simple-minded prince, and led him to adopt heretical notions. In the meantime, Śántanu being much distressed to think that he had been guilty of the offence intimated by the Brahmans, sent them before him into the woods, and then proceeded thither himself, to restore the kingdom to his elder brother. When the Brahmans arrived at the hermitage of Devápi, they informed him, that, according to the doctrines of the Vedas, succession to a kingdom was the right of the elder brother: but he entered into discussion with them, and in various ways advanced arguments which had the defect of being contrary to the precepts of the Vedas. When the Brahmans heard this, they turned to Śántanu, and said, "Come hither, Rájá; you need give yourself no further trouble in this matter; the dearth is at an end: this man is fallen from his state, for he has uttered words of disrespect to the authority of the eternal, untreated Veda; and when the elder brother is degraded, there is no sin in the prior espousals of his junior." Śántanu thereupon returned to his capital, and administered the government as before; and his elder brother Devápi being degraded from his caste by repeating doctrines contrary to the Vedas, Indra poured down abundant rain, which was followed by plentiful harvests.

The son of Báhlíka was Somadatta, who had three sons, Bhúri, Bhúriśravas, and Śala.

4.20.10

somadattasyāpi bhūribhūriśravaḥśalyasaṃjñās trayaḥ putrāḥ |
śāṃtanor apy amaranadyāṃ gaṅgāyām udārakīrtir aśeṣaśāstrārthavid bhīṣmaḥ putro 'bhūt |
satyavatyāṃ ca citrāṅgadavicitravīryau putrāv utpādayām āsa śāṃtanuḥ |
citrāṅgadas tu bāla eva citrāṅgadena gandharveṇāhave vinihataḥ |
vicitravīryo 'pi kāśīrājatanaye ambikāmbālike upayeme |
tadupabhogātikhedāc ca yakṣmaṇā gṛhītaḥ pañcatvam agamat |
satyavatīniyogāc ca tatputraḥ kṛṣṇadvaipāyano mātur vacanam anatikramaṇīyam iti vicitravīryakṣetre dhṛtarāṣṭrapāṇḍū tatprahitabhujiṣyāyāṃ ca viduraṃ utpādayām āsa ||

The son of Śántanu was the illustrious and learned Bhíshma, who was born to him by the holy river-goddess, Gangá; and he had by his wife Satyavatí two sons, Chitrángada and Vichitravíryya. Chitrángada, whilst yet a youth, was killed in a conflict with a Gandharba, also called Chitrángada. Vichitravíryya married Ambá and Ambaliká, the daughters of the king of Káśí; and indulging too freely in connubial rites, fell into a consumption, of which he died. By command of Satyavatí, my son Krishńa-dwaipáyana, ever obedient to his mother's wishes, begot upon the widows of his brother the princes Dhritarásht́ra and Páńd́u, and upon a female servant, Vidura. Dhritarásht́ra had Duryodhana, Duhsáśana, and other sons, to the cumber of a hundred. Páńd́u having incurred the curse of a deer, whose mate he had killed in the chase, was deterred from procreating children; and his wife Kuntí, bare to him in consequence three sons, who were begotten by the deities Dharma, Váyu, and Indra; namely, Yudhisht́hira, Bhíma, and Arjuna: and his wife Mádrí had two sons, Nakula and Sahadeva, by the celestial sons of Aświní. These had each a son by Draupadí. The son of Yudhisht́hira was Prativindhya; of Bhíma, Śrutasoma; of Arjuna, Śrutakírtti; of Nakula, Śatáníka; and of Sahadeva, Śrutakarman. The Páńd́avas had also other sons. By his wife Yaudheyí, Yudhisht́hira had Devaka. The son of Bhíma by Hid́imbá was Ghat́otkacha, and he had also Sarvatraga by his wife Káśí. The son of Sahadeva by Vijayá was Suhotra; and Niramitra was the son of Nakula by Kareńumatí. Arjuna had Irávat by the serpent-nymph Ulupí; Babhruváhana, who was adopted as the son of his maternal grandfather, by the daughter of the king of Manipura; and, by his wife Subhadrá Abhimanyu, who even in extreme youth was renowned for his valour and his strength, and crushed the chariots of his foes in fight. The son of Abhimanyu by his wife Uttará was Paríkshit, who, after the Kurus were all destroyed, was killed in his mother's womb by the magic Bráhma weapon, hurled by Aswattháman: he was however restored to life by the clemency of that being whose feet receive the homage of all the demons and the gods, and who for his own pleasure had assumed a human shape (Krishńa). This prince, Paríkshit, now reigns over the whole world with undivided sway.

The son of Báhlíka was Somadatta, who had three sons, Bhúri, Bhúriśravas, and Śala.

4.20.11

dhṛtarāṣṭro 'pi duryodhanaduḥśāsanādipradhānaṃ putraśatam utpādayām āsa |
pāṇḍor apy araṇye mṛgaśāpopahataprajananasāmarthyasya dharmavāyuśakrair yudhiṣṭhirabhīmārjunāḥ kuntyāṃ nakulasahadevau cāśvibhyāṃ mādryāṃ pañca putrāḥ samutpāditāḥ |
teṣāṃ ca draupadyāṃ pañca putrā babhūvuḥ |
yudhiṣṭhirāt prativindhyo bhīmasenāc chrutasomaḥ śrutakīrtir arjunāc chatānīko nakulāc chrutakarmā sahadevāt |
apare ca pāṇḍavānām ātmajās tad yathā |
yaudheyī yudhiṣṭhirād devakaṃ putram avāpa |
hiḍimbā ghaṭotkacaṃ bhīmasenāt putraṃ lebhe |
kāśī ca bhīmasenād eva sarvatragaṃ putram avāpa |
sahadevāc ca vijayā suhotraṃ nāma putraṃ prāptavatī |
kareṇumatyāṃ ca nakulo 'pi niramitram ajījanat ||

4.20.12

arjunasyāpy ulūpyāṃ nāgakanyāyām irāvān nāma putro 'bhūt |
maṇipurapatiputryāṃ ca putrikādharmeṇa babhruvāhanaṃ nāma putram arjuno 'janayat ||

4.20.12.p1

subhadrāyāṃ cārbhakatve 'pi yo 'sāv atibalaparākramasamastārātirathavijetā so 'bhimanyur ajāyata |
abhimanyor uttarāyāṃ parikṣīṇeṣu kuruṣv aśvatthāmaprayuktabrahmāstreṇa garbha eva bhasmīkṛto bhagavataḥ sakalasurāsuravanditacaraṇayugalasyātmecchākāraṇamānuṣarūpadhāriṇo 'nubhāvāt punar jīvitam avāpya parīkṣij jajñe |
yo 'yaṃ sāmpratam etad bhūmaṇḍalam akhaṇḍitāyatidharmeṇa pālayati|420.13 ||

4.20.12.p2

iti śrīviṣṇupurāṇe caturthe 'ṃśe viṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ