Vishnupurana 4.15.43
Viṣṇupurāṇa 4.15.43
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4.15.43
teṣāṃ ca pradyumnacārudeṣṇasāmbādayas trayodaśa pradhānāḥ |
pradyumno 'pi rukmiṇas tanayāṃ kakudvatīṃ nāmopayeme |
tasyām asyāniruddho jajñe |
aniruddho 'pi rukmiṇa eva pautrīṃ subhadrāṃ nāmopayeme |
tasyām asya vajro 'bhavat |
vajrasya pratibāhus tasyāpi sucāruḥ |
evam anekaśatasāhasrapuruṣasaṃkhyasya yadukulasya puruṣasaṃkhyā varṣaśatair api jñātuṃ na śakyate ||
In this manner the descendants of Yadu multiplied, and there were many hundreds of thousands of them, so that it would be impossible to repeat their names in hundreds of years. Two verses relating to them are current: "The domestic instructors of the boys in the use of arms amounted to three crores and eighty lacs (or thirty-eight millions). Who shall enumerate the whole of the mighty men of the Yádava race, who were tens of ten thousands and hundreds of hundred thousands in number?" Those powerful Daityas who were killed in the conflicts between them and the gods were born again upon earth as men, as tyrants and oppressors; and, in order to check their violence, the gods also descended to the world of mortals, and became members of the hundred and one branches of the family of Yadu. Vishńu was to them a teacher and a ruler, and all the Yádavas were obedient to his commands.
Whilst this powerful being resided in this world of mortals, he had sixteen thousand and one hundred wives; of these the principal were Rukminí, Satyabhámá, Jámbavatí, Játahaśiní, and four others. By these the universal form, who is without beginning, begot a hundred and eighty thousand sons, of whom thirteen are most renowned, Pradyumna, Chárudeshńa, Sámba, and others. Pradyumna married Kakudwatí, the daughter of Rukmin, and had by her Aniruddha. Aniruddha married Subhadrá, the granddaughter of the same Rukmin, and she bore him a son named Vajra. The son of Vajra was Báhu; and his son was Sucháru.
Translations (2)
- The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English
Other recensions (1)
- Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate) — Sanskrit