{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk08ch03.htm","path":"hin/db/bk08ch03.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk08ch03.htm","text":"THE EIGHTH BOOK\nChapter III\nOn the description of the family of Manu\n1-23. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- O N\u00e2rada! When the Bhagav\u00e2n went away to Vaikuntha, establishing the Earth in due position and equilibrium, Brahm\u00e2 spoke thus to his son :-- \u201cO Powerful Son of mine, O Sv\u00e2yamhhuva! The best of those that are filled with Teja (energy) and Tapas! Now go on with your work of creation, as you think proper, on this earth, the Upholdress of all the J\u00eevas. And worship the Purusa, the Lord of Sacrifices, according to the division of place and time, and with all the necessary materials of various kinds, high and low, and those that will be useful in performing your sacrifices. Do Dharma according to the S'\u00e2stras, and according to the Varna(the different castes) and \u00c2srama (Brahm\u00e2charya, etc.); thus by gradually going on step by step in the path of Yoga, your progeny will be multiplied. Beget lovely sons and daughters, of good fame, culture, modesty and ornamented with various other good qualifications, like yourself; then marry your daughters when they will come to the marriageable age, to proper persons of good qualifications and then fix your mind thoroughly on the Excellent Purusa that is the very Best. O Child! Now go and serve the Bhagav\u00e2n with devotion as I have advised you; and you will certainly attain that which is difficult to be worshipped and obtained. Advising thus his son Sv\u00e2yambhuva Manu, and starting him in his work; of creation, the Lotus-born, the Lord of all the subjects, Brahm\u00e2 went away to His own abode. When Brahm\u00e2 went away, having ordered his son to create progeny and subjects, Manu, took that seriously in his heart and began to do that work. In due time, he had two powerful sons named Priyavrata and Utt\u00e2nap\u00e2da and three lovely beautiful daughters endowed with various good qualities. Hear the names of the three daughters. The first daughter, the purifier of the world, was named \u00c2k\u00fbti; the second was named Devah\u00fbti and the third was Pras\u00fbti. The first daughter \u00c2k\u00fbti was married to the Maharsi Ruchi; the second was married to the Prajapati Karddama; and the third was married to the Prajapati Daksa. And know that all the beings in this world had their origin from this last daughter. Now hear the progeny of these three daughters and the Maharsis respectively :-- By Maharsi Ruchi was born one son named Yaj\u00f1a, in the womb of \u00c2k\u00fbti; he is the part of\nthe Bhagav\u00e2n \u00c2di Purusa Visnu; by Maharsi Karddama, in the womb of Devah\u00fbti was born the Bhagav\u00e2n Kapila Deva, the famous author of the S'\u00e2nkhya S'\u00e2stra; and in the womb of Pras\u00fbti, by the Praj\u00e2pati Daksa were born some daughters only; know that the Devas, men, beasts and birds were all created by this Praj\u00e2pati Daksa. These offsprings were the first promulgators in the work of creation. In the Sv\u00e2yambhuva Manvantara, the powerful Bhagav\u00e2n Yaj\u00f1a, by the help of the Deva named Y\u00e2ma, saved his mother's Father Manu from the attacks of the Raksasas; and the great Lord of the Yogis, the Bhagav\u00e2n Kapila, remained for a while in his \u00c2srama and gave spiritual instructions to his mother Devah\u00fbti, by which Avidy\u00e2 could be at once destroyed, and disclosed his S'\u00e2nkhya S'\u00e2stra, the great work on the Spiritual Philosophy and the special Dhy\u00e2na Yoga in all its details and finally went for Sam\u00e2dhi to the \u00c2srama of Pulaha where the great Deva S\u00e2mkhy\u00e2 ch\u00e2rya lives up to today. Oh! I bow down to the great Yog\u00e2ch\u00e2rya, the Bhagav\u00e2n Kapila Deva, the Fructifier of all desires, the more remembrance of Whose Name makes easily the Yogi realise the meaning of the S\u00e2mkhya J\u00f1\u00e2na. The sins are immediately destroyed of those that hear or read the holy anecdote of the progeny of the daughters of Manu. O Child! Now I describe to you the progeny of the sons of Sv\u00e2yambhuva Manu. Hear attentively. The hearing of which will enable one to enter into the highest place. Now is being described the history about the progeny of those who formed those Dvipas (islands) Varsas(countries) and oceans for the welfare and happiness of all the creation and for the use of them. Hear.\nHere ends the Third Chapter of the Eighth Book on the description of the family of Manu in S'r\u00ee Mad Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam, the Mah\u00e2 Pur\u00e2nam, of 18,000 verses, by Maharsi Veda Vy\u00e2sa.","title":"The Devi Bhagavatam: The Eighth Book: Chapter 3","type":"page"}