{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/vp/vp111.htm","path":"hin/vp/vp111.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp111.htm","text":"The Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840]\nDescendants of Anu. Countries and towns named after some of them, as Anga, Banga, and others.\nANU 1, the fourth son of Yay\u00e1ti, had three sons, Sabh\u00e1nara, Ch\u00e1kshusha, and Paramekshu 2. The son of the first was K\u00e1l\u00e1nara 3; his son was \u015arinjaya; his son was Puranjaya; his son was Janamejaya; his son was Mah\u00e1mani 4; his son was Mah\u00e1manas, who had two sons, U\u015b\u00ednara and Titikshu. U\u015b\u00ednara had five sons, \u015aivi, Tri\u0144a 5, Gara 6, Krimi, D\u00e1rvan 7. \u015aivi had four sons, Vrishadarbha, Suv\u00edra, Kaikeya, and Madra 8. Titikshu had one son, Ushadratha 9; his son was Hema 10; his son was Sutapas; his son was Bali, on whose wife five sons were begotten by D\u00edrghatamas, or Anga, Banga, Kalinga, Suhma, and Pu\u0144d\u0301ra 11; and their descendants, and the five countries they inhabited, were known by the same names 12.\nThe son of Anga was P\u00e1ra 13; his son was Divaratha; his son was Dharmaratha 14; his son was Chitraratha; his son was Romap\u00e1da 15, also called Da\u015baratha, to whom, being childless, Da\u015baratha, the son of Aja, gave his daughter \u015a\u00e1nt\u00e1 to be adopted 16. After this, Romap\u00e1da had a son named Chaturanga; his son was Prithul\u00e1ksha; his son was Champa, who founded the city of Champ\u00e1 17. The son of Champa was Haryyanga; his son was Bhadraratha, who had two sons, Vrihatkarman and Vrihadratha. The son of the first was Vrihadbh\u00e1nu 18; his son was Vrihanmanas; his son was Jayadratha, who, by a wife who was the daughter of a Kshatriya father and Brahmani mother, had a son named Vijaya 19;\nhis son was Dhriti; his son was Dhritavrata; his son was Satyakarman; his son was Adhiratha 20, who found Karna in a basket on the banks of the Ganges, where he had been exposed by his mother, Pritha. The son of Kar\u0144a was Vrishasena 21. These were the Anga kings. You shall next hear who were the descendants of Puru.\n444:1 By some unaccountable caprice the Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V., unsupported by any other authority, here substitute for Anu the name of Kaksheyu, a descendant of Puru, and transfer the whole series of his posterity to the house of Puru.\n444:2 Paksha and Parapaksha: V\u00e1yu. Parameshu: Matsya. Paroksha: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n444:3 K\u00e1l\u00e1nala: V\u00e1yu. Kol\u00e1hala: Matsya.\n444:4 Mah\u00e1\u015b\u00e1la: Agni. Mah\u00e1\u015b\u00edla: Bh\u00e1gav.\n444:5 Nriga: Agni. Vana: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n444:6 Nava: Matsya. \u015aama: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n444:7 Vrata: Agni. Suvrata: Matsya. Daksha: Bh\u00e1gavata. According to the Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V. the five sons of U\u015b\u00ednara were the ancestors of different tribes. \u015aivi was the progenitor of the \u015aaivas; Nriga of the Yaudheyas; Nava of the Navar\u00e1sht\u0301ras; Vrata of the \u00c1mbasht\u0301has; and Krimi founded the city Krimil\u00e1.\n444:8 Bhadra and Bhadraka: Matsya, Agni. These sons of \u015aivi give name to different provinces and tribes in the west and north-west of India.\n444:9 Rushadratha: Agni. Tushadratha: Matsya.\n444:10 Phe\u0144a: Agni. Sena: Matsya.\n444:11 Odra, or in some copies Andhra: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n444:12 See p. 185. n. 3; p. 188. n. 46, 49, 50; and p. 190. n. 73. Of Suhma it may be remarked, that it is specified in the Siddh\u00e1nta Kaumud\u00ed as an example of Panin\u00ed's rule; 17.3.24; by which Nagara compounded with names of countries in the east becomes N\u00e1gara, as Sauhman\u00e1gara, 'produced, &c. in a city of Suhma.' The descendants of Anu, according to the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata were all Mlechchhas. The last named work, as well as the V\u00e1yu and Matsya Pur\u00e1\u0144as, have an absurd story of the circumstances of the birth of D\u00edrghatamas, who was the son of Uj\u00e1si or Utathya, the elder brother of Vrihaspati by Mamat\u00e1, and of his begetting Anga p. 445 and the rest. They agree in assigning descendants of all four castes to them; the V\u00e1yu stating that Bali had ### and the Matsya ascribing it to a boon given by Brahm\u00e1 to Bali: 'Do thou establish the four perpetual castes.' Of these, the Brahmans are known as B\u00e1leyas: ###. The Matsya calls Bali, the son of Virochana, and 'existing for a whole Kalpa;' identifying him therefore, only in a different period and form, with the Bali of the V\u00e1mana Avat\u00e1ra.\n445:13 An\u00e1p\u00e1na: V\u00e1yu. Khan\u00e1p\u00e1na: Bh\u00e1gavata. Adhiv\u00e1hana: Agni. Dadhivahana: Matsya.\n445:14 This prince is said in the V\u00e1yu to have drank the Soma juice along with Indra.\n445:15 The Matsya and Agni insert a Satyaratha.\n445:16 This is noticed in the R\u00e1m\u00e1ya\u0144a, in the story of the hermit Rishya\u015bringa, to whom \u015a\u00e1nt\u00e1 was given in marriage. Her adoptive father is called in the R\u00e1m\u00e1ya\u0144a, as the is in the Agni and Matsya, Lomap\u00e1da: the meaning is the same, 'hairy foot.' R\u00e1m\u00e1ya\u0144a, IX. X. See also Prelude to the Uttara R\u00e1ma Cheritra, Hindu Theatre, I. 289.\n445:17 The Bh\u00e1gavata differs here from all the other authorities in omitting Champa, the founder of Champapur\u00ed, a city of which traces still remain in the vicinity of Bhagalpur, having inserted him previously amongst the descendants of Ikshw\u00e1ku (see p. 373. n. 12). Champ\u00e1 is every where recognised as the capital of Anga, and the translators of the R\u00e1m\u00e1ya\u0144a were very wide of the truth, when they conjectured that it might be Angwa or Ava.\n445:18 Vrihaddarbha: Br\u00e1hma. The Bh\u00e1gavata omits the two successors of Champa, and makes Vrihadratha, Vrihatkarman, and Vrihadbh\u00e1nu, sons of Prithul\u00e1ksha.\n445:19 The V\u00e1yu, Matsya, and Hari V. make Vijaya the brother of Jayadratha. The Bh\u00e1gavata agrees with our text. The mother of Vijaya from her origin was of the S\u00fata caste, the genealogist and charioteer. Manu, X. 47. Her son was of the same caste, children taking the caste of the mother: consequently the descendants of Vijaya, kings of Anga, were S\u00fatas; and this explains the contemptuous application of the term S\u00fata to Kar\u0144a, the half brother of the P\u00e1\u0144d\u0301us; for he, as p. 446 will presently be mentioned, was adopted into the Anga family, and succeeded to the crown.\n446:20 Some variety prevails in the series of princes here, but this arises from not distinguishing the collateral lines, the descendants of Jayadratha from those of Vijaya. The V\u00e1yu and Matsya give the latter as in our text, but they agree also with the Agni and Br\u00e1hma in the successors of Jayadratha, as Drid\u0301haratha or Vrihadratha, and Janamejaya or Vi\u015bwajit.\n446:21 S\u00farasena: V\u00e1yu. Vikar\u0144a: Br\u00e1hma.","title":"The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter XVIII","type":"page"}