{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry212.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry212.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry212.htm","text":"Then as the son of Raghu made\n His way to Panchavat\u00ed's shade,\n A mighty vulture he beheld\n Of size and strength unparalleled.\n The princes, when the bird they saw,\n Approached with reverence and awe,\n And as his giant form they eyed,\n 'Tell who thou art,' in wonder cried.\n The bird, as though their hearts to gain,\n Addressed them thus in gentlest strain;\n 'In me, dear sons, the friend behold\n Your royal father loved of old.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 He spoke: nor long did R\u00e1ma wait\n His sire's dear friend to venerate:\n \n \n \n He bade the bird declare his name\n And the high race of which he came.\n When Raghu's son had spoken, he\n Declared his name and pedigree,\n His words prolonging to disclose\n How all the things that be arose:\n \u00a0\u00a0 'List while I tell, O Raghu's son,\n The first-born Fathers, one by one,\n Great Lords of Life, whence all in earth\n And all in heaven derive their birth.\n First Kardam heads the glorious race\n Where Vikrit holds the second place,\n With S'esha, Sans'ray next in line,\n And Bahuputra's might divine.\n Then Sth\u00e1nu and Mar\u00edchi came,\n Atri, and Kratu's forceful frame.\n Pulastya followed, next to him\n Angiras' name shall ne'er be dim.\n Prachetas, Pulah next, and then\n Daksha, Vivasvat praised of men:\n Ar\u00edshtanemi next, and last\n Kas'yap in glory unsurpassed.\n From Daksha,--fame the tale has told--\n Three-score bright daughters sprang of old.\n Of these fair-waisted nymphs the great\n Lord Kas'yap sought and wedded eight,\n Aditi, Diti, K\u00e1lak\u00e1,\n T\u00e1mr\u00e1, Dan\u00fa, and Anal\u00e1,\n And Krodhavas\u00e1 swift to ire,\n And Manu \u00a01b glorious as her sire.\n Then when the mighty Kas'yap cried\n Delighted to each tender bride:\n 'Sons shalt thou bear, to rule the three\n Great worlds, in might resembling me,'\n \n \n \n Aditi, Diti, and Dan\u00fa\n Obeyed his will as consorts true,\n And K\u00e1lak\u00e1; but all the rest\n Refused to hear their lord's behest.\n First Aditi conceived, and she,\n Mother of thirty Gods and three,\n The Vasus and A'dityas bare,\n Kudras, and A'svins, heavenly pair.\n Of Diti sprang the Daityas: fame\n Delights to laud their ancient name.\n In days of yore their empire dread\n O'er earth and woods and ocean spread.\n Dan\u00fa was mother of a child,\n O hero, As'vagr\u00edva styled,\n And Narak next and K\u00e1lak came\n Of K\u00e1lak\u00e1, celestial dame.\n Of T\u00e1mr\u00e1, too, five daughters bright\n In deathless glory sprang to light.\n Ennobling fame still keeps alive\n The titles of the lovely five:\n Immortal honour still she claims\n For Kraunch\u00ed, Bhas\u00ed, S'yen\u00ed's names.\n And wills not that the world forget\n S'uk\u00ed or Dhritar\u00e1shtr\u00ed yet.\n Then Kraunch\u00ed bare the crane and owl,\n And Bh\u00e1s\u00ed tribes of water fowl:\n Vultures and hawks that race through air\n With storm-fleet pinions S'yen\u00ed bare.\n All swans and geese on mere and brook\n Their birth from Dhritar\u00e1shtr\u00ed took,\n And all the river-haunting brood\n Of ducks, a countless multitude.\n From S'uk\u00ed Nal\u00e1 sprang, who bare\n Dame Vinat\u00e1 surpassing fair.\n From fiery Krodhavas'\u00e1, ten\n Bright daughters sprang, O King of men:\n Mrig\u00ed and Mrigamad\u00e1 named,\n Hari and Bhadiamad\u00e1 famed,\n S'\u00e1rd\u00fal\u00ed, S'vet\u00e1 fair to see,\n M\u00e1tangi bright, and Surabhi,\n Suras\u00e1 marked with each fair sign,\n And Kadrum\u00e1, all maids divine.\n Mrig\u00ed, O prince without a peer,\n Was mother of the herds of deer,\n The bear, the yak, the mountain roe\n Their birth to Mrigamand\u00e1 owe;\n And Bhadramad\u00e1 joyed to be\n Mother of fair Ir\u00e1vat\u00ed,\n Who bare Air\u00e1vat, \u00a01 huge of mould,\n Mid warders of the earth enrolled,\n From Har\u00ed lordly lions trace,\n With monkeys of the wild, their race.\n From the great dame S'\u00e1rd\u00fal\u00ed styled\n Sprung pards, L\u00e1ng\u00fars,\u00a02 and tigers wild.\n M\u00e1tangi, Prince, gave birth to all\n M\u00e1tangas, elephants strong and tall,\n \n \n And S'vet'a bore the beasts who stand\n One at each wind, earth's warder band. \u00a01b\n Next Surabh\u00ed the Goddess bore\n Two heavenly maids, O Prince, of yore,\n Gandharvi--dear *as fa??* is she--\n And her sweet sister Rohin\u00ed.\n With kine this daughter filled each mead,\n And bright Gandharv\u00ed bore the steed. \u00a02b\n Suras\u00e1 bore the serpents: \u00a03b all\n The snakes Kadr\u00fa their mother call.\n Then Manu, high-souled Kas'yap's \u00a04b wife,\n To all the race of men gave life,\n The Br\u00e1hmans first, the Kshatriya caste,\n Then Vais'yas, and the S'\u00fadras last.\n Sprang from her mouth the Brahman race;\n Her chest the Kshatriyas' natal place:\n The Vais'yas from her thighs,'tis said,\n The S'\u00fadras from her feet were bred.\n From Anal\u00e1 all trees that hang\n Their fair fruit-laden branches sprang.\n The child of beauteous S'uk\u00ed bore\n Vinat\u00e1, as I taught before:\n And Suras\u00e1 and Kadr\u00fa were\n Born of one dame, a noble pair.\n Kadr\u00fa gave birth to countless snakes\n That roam the earth in woods and brakes.\n Arun and Garud swift of flight\n By V'inat\u00e1 were given to light,\n And sons' of Arun red as morn\n Sampati first, then I was born,\n Me then, O tamer of the toe,\n Jut\u00e1yus, son of S'yen\u00ed, know.\n Thy ready helper will I be,\n And guard thy house, if thou agree:\n When thou and Lakshman urge the chase\n By S\u00edt\u00e1's side shall be my place.'\n \u00a0\u00a0 With courteous thanks for promised aid,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The prince, to rapture stirred,\n \u00a0\u00a0 Bent low, and due obeisance paid,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Embraced the royal bird.\n \n \n He often in the days gone by\n \u00a0\u00a0 Had heard his father tell\n How, linked with him in friendship's tie,\n \u00a0\u00a0 He loved Jat\u00e1yus well.\n He hastened to his trusted friend\n \u00a0\u00a0 His darling to confide,\n And through the wood his steps to bend\n \u00a0\u00a0 By strong Jat\u00e1yus' side.\n On to the grove, with Lakshman near,\n \u00a0\u00a0 The prince his way pursued\n To free those pleasant shades from fear\n \u00a0\u00a0 And slay the giant brood.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n245:1 The Madh\u00faka, or, as it is now called, Mahuw\u00e1, is the Bassia latifolia, a tree from whose blossoms a spirit is extracted.\n245:1b 'I should have doubted whether Manu could have been the right reading here, but that it occurs again in verse 29, where it is in like manner followed in verse 31 by Anal\u00e1, so that it would certainly seem that the name Manu is intended to stand for a female, the daughter of Daksha. The Gauda recension, followed by Signor Gorresio (III 20, 12), adopts an entirely different reading at the end of the line, viz. Bal\u00e1m Atibal\u00e1m api, \"Bal\u00e1 and Atibil\u00e1,\" instead of Manu and Anal\u00e1. I see that Professor Roth s.v. adduces the authority of the Amara Kosha and of the Commentator on P\u00e1nini for stating that the word sometimes means \"the wife of Manu.\" In the following text of the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata I. 2553. also, Manu appears to be the name of a female: Anaradyam, Manum, Vans\u00e1m, Asur\u00e1m, M\u00e1rganapriy\u00e1m, An\u00fap\u00e1m, Subhagdm, Bh\u00e1s\u00edm iti Pr\u00e1dh\u00e1 vyajayata. \"Pr\u00e1dh\u00e1 (daughter of Daksha) bore Anavady\u00e1, Manu, Vans'\u00e1, M\u00e1rganapriv\u00e1, An\u00fap\u00e1, Subhag\u00e1. and Bh\u00e1s\u00ed.\"' Muir's Sanskrit Text, Vol. I. p. 116.\n246:1 The elephant of Indra.\n246:2 Goling\u00falas, described as a kind of monkey, of a black colour, and having a tail like a cow.\n246:1b Eight elephants attached to the four quarters and intermediate points of the compass, to support and guard the earth.\n246:2b Some scholars identify the centaurs with the Gandharvas.\n246:3b The hooded serpents, says the commentator T\u00edrtha, were the offspring of Suras\u00e1: all others of Kadr\u00fa.\n246:4b The text reads K\u00e1s'yapa, \"a descendant of Kas'yapa,\" who according to R\u00e1m. II. l0, 6, ought to be Vivasvat. But as it is stated in the preceding part of this passage III. 14, 11 f. that Manu was one of Kasyapa's eight wives, we must here read Kasyapa. The Ganda recension reads (III, 20, 30) Manur manushyams cha tutha janay\u00e1m\u00e1sa Raghana**, instead of the corresponding line in the Bombay edition.' Muir's Sanskrit Text, Vol I, p. 117.","title":"BOOK III: Canto XIV.: Jat\u00e1yus.","type":"page"}