[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c5.42 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.42 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.42 - **Language:** English ### [c5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.42) After this, once the Pracetases (the ten sons of Barhis) were engaged in penance and the earth was not properly cultivated in consequence of which big trees grew up and the whole of the earth was changed into a big forest. The sky was covered with tree tops. It was difficult even for the wind to pass through them and thus the forest thrived for ten thousand years. The pracetases got out of the sea after penance and entered the shore. When they saw the big forest they got angry and the ten of them discharged fire and wind from their faces. The wind up-rooted the trees and the fire dried them. Thus almost the whole of the trees were consumed. Then Candra, the King of the medicinal herbs came there and told the Pracetases “Oh, Kings, hold your anger. I will make the trees conclude a treaty with you. The beautiful Māriṣā who was born to the trees is my foster-daughter. I give her to you as your wife. From half the portion of your minds and half the portion of my mind the great and wise prajāpati Dakṣa is going to take birth in her womb”. The Pracetases controlled their anger and accepted Māriṣā as their wife, at the words of Somadeva (Candra) and as the son of the ten pracetases the Prajāpati Dakṣa was born. With this the second stage of the life of Dakṣa begins. The important occurrences in the two stages of the life of Dakṣa are given below in their order. - [Previous: c5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.41) - [Next: c5.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.43) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.42) · Pramāṇa