{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/vp/vp105.htm","path":"hin/vp/vp105.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp105.htm","text":"The Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840]\nDescendants of Krosht\u0301ri. Jy\u00e1magha's connubial affection for his wife \u015aaivy\u00e1: their descendants kings of Vidarbha and Chedi.\nKROSHT\u0301RI, the son of Yadu 1, had a son named Vrijin\u00edvat 2; his son was Sw\u00e1h\u00ed 3; his son was Rushadru 4; his son was Chitraratha; his son was \u015aa\u015bavindu, who was lord of the fourteen great gems 5; he had a hundred thousand wives and a million of sons 6. The most renowned of them were Prithuya\u015bas, Prithukarman, Prithujaya, Prithuk\u00edrtti, Prithud\u00e1na, and Prithu\u015bravas. The son of the last of these six 7 was Tamas 8; his son was U\u015banas 9, who celebrated a hundred sacrifices of the horse; his son was \u015aiteyus 10; his son was Rukmakavacha 11; his son was Par\u00e1vrit, who lead five sons, Rukm\u00e9shu, Prithurukman, Jy\u00e1magha, P\u00e1lita, and Harita 12. To this day the following verse relating to Jy\u00e1magha\nis repeated: \"Of all the husbands submissive to their wives, who have been or who will be, the most eminent is the king Jy\u00e1magha 13, who was the husband of \u015aaivy\u00e1.\" \u015aaivy\u00e1 was barren; but Jy\u00e1magha was so much afraid of her, that he did not take any other wife. On one occasion the king, after a desperate conflict with elephants and horse, defeated a powerful foe, who abandoning wife, children, kin, army, treasure, and dominion, fled. When the enemy was put to flight, Jy\u00e1magha beheld a lovely princess left alone, and exclaiming, \"Save me, father! Save me, brother!\" as her large eyes rolled wildly with affright. The king was struck by her beauty, and penetrated with affection for her, and said to himself, \"This is fortunate; I have no children, and am the husband of a sterile bride; this maiden has fallen into my hands to rear up to me posterity: I will espouse her; but first I will take her in my car, and convey her to my palace, where I must request the concurrence of the queen in these nuptials.\" Accordingly he took the princess into his chariot, and returned to his own capital.\nWhen Jy\u00e1magha's approach was announced, \u015aaivy\u00e1 came to the palace gate, attended by the ministers, the courtiers, and the citizens, to welcome the victorious monarch: but when she beheld the maiden standing on the left hand of the king, her lips swelled and slightly quivered with resentment, and she said to Jy\u00e1magha, \"Who is this light-hearted damsel that is with you in the chariot?\" The king unprepared with a reply,\nmade answer precipitately, through fear of his queen; \"This is my daughter-in-law.\" \"I have never had a son,\" rejoined \u015aaivy\u00e1, \"and you have no other children. Of what son of yours then is this girl the wife?\" The king disconcerted by the jealousy and anger which the words of \u015aaivy\u00e1 displayed, made this reply to her in order to prevent further contention; \"She is the young bride of the future son whom thou shalt bring forth.\" Hearing this, \u015aaivy\u00e1 smiled gently, and said, \"So be it;\" and the king entered into his great palace.\nIn consequence of this conversation regarding the birth of a son having taken place in an auspicious conjunction, aspect, and season, the queen, although passed the time of women, became shortly afterwards pregnant, and bore a son. His father named him Vidarbha, and married him to the damsel he had brought home. They had three sons, Kratha, Kai\u015bika 14, and Romap\u00e1da 15. The son of Romap\u00e1da was Babhru 16, and his son was Dhriti 17. The son of Kai\u015bika was Chedi, whose descendants were called the Chaidya kings 18. The son of Kratha was Kunti 19; his son was Vrish\u0144i 20; his son was Nirvriti 21; his son was Das\u00e1rha; his son was Vyoman; his son was J\u00edm\u00fata; his son was Vikriti 22; his son was Bh\u00edmaratha; his son was Navaratha 23; his son was Da\u015baratha 24; his son was \u015aakuni; his son was Karambhi; his son was Devar\u00e1ta; his son was Devakshatra 25; his son was Madhu 26; his son was Anavaratha; his\nson was Kuruvatsa; his son was Anuratha; his son was Puruhotra; his son was An\u015bu; his son was Satwata, from whom the princes of this house were termed S\u00e1twatas. This was the progeny of Jy\u00e1magha; by listening to the account of whom, a man is purified from his sins.\n420:1 In the Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V. we have two families from Krosht\u0301ri; one which is much the same as that of the text; the other makes short work of a long story, as we shall again notice.\n420:2 Vajravat: K\u00farma.\n420:3 \u015a\u00e1nti: K\u00farma. Sw\u00e1ha: Matsya. Tri\u015banku Linga.\n420:4 Vish\u00e1nsu: Agni. Rishabha: Linga. Ku\u015bika: K\u00farma. Ru\u015beku: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n420:5 Or articles the best of their kind; seven animate, and seven inanimate; a wife, a priest, a general, a charioteer, a horse, an elephant, and a body of foot soldiers; or, instead of the last three, an executioner, an encomiast, a reader of the Vedas; and a chariot, an umbrella, a jewel, a sword, a shield, a banner, and a treasure.\n420:6 The text states this in plain prose, but the V\u00e1yu quotes a verse which makes out but a hundred hundred or 10,000 sons.\n420:7 The Matsya has the first, third, and fifth of our text, and Prithudharma, Prithuk\u00edrtti, and Prithumat. The K\u00farma has also six names, but makes as many successions.\n420:8 Suyajna: Agni, Br\u00e1hma, Matsya. Dharma: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n420:9 Ushat: Br\u00e1hma, Hari V.\n420:10 \u015ait\u00edkshu: Agni. \u015aineyus: Br\u00e1hma. Purujit: Bh\u00e1gavata. The V\u00e1yu has Maruta and Kambalavarhish, brothers, instead.\n420:11 Considerable variety prevails here. The Br\u00e1hma and Hari V. have Marutta the R\u00e1jarshi (a gross blunder, see p. 352), Kambalavarhish, \u015aatapras\u00fati, Rukmakavacha: the Agni--Marutta, Kambalavarhish, Rukmeshu: whilst the Bh\u00e1gavata makes Ruchaka son of U\u015banas, and father to the five princes who in the text are the grandsons of Rukmakavacha.\n420:12 The Bh\u00e1gavata has Rukmeshu, Rukman, Jy\u00e1magha, Prithu, and Purujit. The p. 421 V\u00e1yu reads the two last names Parigha and Hari. The Br\u00e1hma and Hari V. insert Parajit as the father of the five named as in the text.\n421:13 Most of the other authorities mention that the elder of the five brothers, Rukmeshu, succeeded his father in the sovereignty; and that the second, Prithurukman, remained in his brother's service. P\u00e1lita and Harita were set over Videha (Linga) or Tirhut, and Jy\u00e1magha went forth to settle where he might: according to the V\u00e1yu he conquered Madhyade\u015ba (the country along the Narmad\u00e1), Mekal\u00e1, and the \u015auktimat mountains. So the Br\u00e1hma P. states that he established himself along the Rikshavat mountain, and dwelt in \u015auktimati. He names his son, as we shall see, Vidarbha: the country so called is Berar, and amongst his descendants we have the Chaidyas or princes of Boghelkand, and Chandail, and Das\u00e1rha, more correctly perhaps Dasar\u0144a, Chattisgher; so that this story of Jy\u00e1magha's adventures appears to allude to the first settlement of the Y\u00e1dava tribes along the Narmad\u00e1, more to the south and west than before.\n422:14 The Bh\u00e1gavata has Ku\u015ba; the Matsya, Kau\u015bika: all the authorities agree in specifying three sons.\n422:15 Lomap\u00e1da: Agni.\n422:16 Vastu: V\u00e1yu. Kriti: Agni.\n422:17 \u00c1huti: V\u00e1yu. Iti: Padma. Dyuti: Matsya. Bhriti: K\u00farma. This latter is singular in carrying on the line of Romap\u00e1da for twelve generations farther.\n422:18 The Bh\u00e1gavata, however, makes the princes of Chedi continuous from Romap\u00e1da; as, Babhru, Dhriti, U\u015b\u00edka, Chedi--the Chaidyas, amongst whom were Damaghosha and \u015ai\u015bup\u00e1la.\n422:19 Kumbhi: Padma.\n422:20 Dhrisht\u0301a: V\u00e1yu. Dhrisht\u0301i: Matsya,\n422:21 Nivritti: V\u00e1yu. Nidhriti: Agni. The Br\u00e1hma makes three sons, Avanta, Da\u015b\u00e1rha, and Balivrishahan. In the Linga it is said of Das\u00e1rha that he was 'destroyer of the host of copper (faced; European?) foes.'\n422:22 Vikala: Matsya.\n422:23 Nararatha: Br\u00e1hma, Hari V.\n422:24 Drid\u0301haratha: Agni. Devar\u00e1ta: Linga.\n422:25 Soma: Linga. Devanakshatra: Padma.\n422:26 There is great variety in the succeeding appellations: p. 423\n| Bh\u00e1gavata. | V\u00e1yu. | Br\u00e1hma. | Matsya. | Padma. | K\u00farma. | \n| Madhu | Madhu | Madhu | Madhu | Madhu | Madhu | \n| Kuruva\u015ba | Manu | Manava\u015bas | Uruvas | Puru | Kuru | \n| Anu | Puruvatsa | Purudwat | Purudwat | Punarvasu | Anu | \n| Puruhotra \u00c1yu | Purudwat Satwa | Madhu and Satwa | Jantu | Jantu | Ansa | \n| Satwata | Satwata | Satwata | Satwata | Satwata | Andhaka Satwata | \n[paragraph continues] The Linga has Purushaprabhu, Manwat, Pratarddana, Satwata; and the Agni, Dravavasu, Puruhuta, Jantu, and S\u00e1twata. Some of these originate, no doubt, in the blunders of copyists, but they cannot all be referred to that source.","title":"The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter XII","type":"page"}