{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/vp/vp112.htm","path":"hin/vp/vp112.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp112.htm","text":"The Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840]\nDescendants of Puru. Birth of Bharata, the son of Dushyanta: his sons killed: adopts Bharadw\u00e1ja or Vitatha. Hastin, founder of Hastinapur. Sons of Aj\u00e1m\u00edd\u0301ha, and the races derived from them, as P\u00e1nch\u00e1las, &c. Kripa and Krip\u00ed found by \u015a\u00e1ntanu. Descendants of Riksha, the son of Aj\u00e1m\u00edd\u0301ha. Kurukshetra named from Kuru. Jar\u00e1sandha and others, kings of Magadh\u00e1.\nTHE son of Puru was Janamejaya; his son was Pr\u00e1chinvat; his son was Prav\u00edra; his son was Manasyu; his son was Bhayada 1; his son was Sudyumna 2; his son was Bahugava 3; his son was Samy\u00e1ti 4; his son was Ahamy\u00e1ti 5; his son was Raudr\u00e1\u015bwa 6, who had ten sons, Riteyu 7, Kaksheyu, Stha\u0144d\u0301ileyu, Ghriteyu, Jaleyu, Sthaleyu, Santateyu, Dhaneyu, Vaneyu, and Vrateyu 8. The son of Riteyu was Rantin\u00e1ra 9,\nwhose sons were Tansu, Apratiratha, and Dhruva 10. The son of the second of these was Ka\u0144wa, and his son was Medh\u00e1tithi, from whom the K\u00e1\u0144w\u00e1y\u00e1na Brahmanas 11 descended. Anila 12 was the son of Tansu, and he had four sons, of whom Dushyanta was the elder 13. The son of\n[paragraph continues] Dushyanta was the emperor Bharata; a verse explanatory of his name is chaunted by the gods; \"The mother is only the receptacle; it is the father by whom a son is begotten. Cherish thy son, Dushyanta; treat not \u015aakuntal\u00e1 with disrespect. Sons, who are born from the paternal loins, rescue their progenitors from the infernal regions. Thou art the parent of this boy; \u015aakuntal\u00e1 has spoken truth.\" From the expression 'cherish,' Bharaswa, the prince was called Bharata 14.\nBharata had by different wives nine sons, but they were put to death by their own mothers, because Bharata remarked that they bore no resemblance to him, and the women were afraid that he would therefore desert them. The birth of his sons being thus unavailing, Bharata sacrificed to the Maruts, and they gave him Bharadw\u00e1ja, the son of Vrihaspati by Mamata the wife of Utathya, expelled by the kick of Dirghatamas, his half brother, before his time. This verse explains the purport of his appellation; \"'Silly woman,' said Vrihaspati, 'cherish this child of two fathers' (bhara dw\u00e1-jam). 'No, Vrihaspati,' replied Mamat\u00e1, 'do you take care of him.' So saying, they both abandoned him; but from their expressions the boy was called Bharadw\u00e1ja.\" He was also termed Vitatha, in allusion to the unprofitable (vitatha) birth of the sons of Bharata 15. The son of Vitatha was\n[paragraph continues] Bhavanmanyu 16; his sons were many, and amongst them the chief were Vrihatkshatra, Mah\u00e1v\u00edryya, Nara, and Garga 17. The son of Nara was Sankriti; his sons were Ruchiradh\u00ed and Rantideva 18. The son of Garga\nwas Sini 19, and their descendants called G\u00e1rgyas and \u015aainyas, although Kshatriyas by birth, became Brahmans 20. The son of Mah\u00e1v\u00edryya was Urukshaya 21, who had three sons, Trayy\u00e1ru\u0144a, Pushkarin, and Kapi 22; the last of whom became a Brahman. The son of Vrihatkshatra was Suhotra 23, whose son was Hastin, who founded the city of\n[paragraph continues] Hastin\u00e1pur 24. The sons of Hastin were Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha 25, Dwim\u00edd\u0301ha, and Purum\u00edd\u0301ha. One son of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha was Ka\u0144wa, whose son was Medh\u00e1tithi 26; his other son was Vrihadishu, whose son was Vrihadvasu 27; his son was Vrihatkarman 28; his son was Jayadratha 29; his son was Vi\u015bwajit 30; his son was Senajit, whose sons were Ruchir\u00e1\u015bwa, K\u00e1\u015bya, Drid\u0301hadhanush, and Vasahanu 31. The son of Ruchir\u00e1\u015bwa was Prithusena; his son was P\u00e1ra; his son was N\u00edpa; he had a hundred sons, of whom Samara, the principal, was the ruler of K\u00e1mpilya 32. Samara had three sons, P\u00e1ra, Samp\u00e1ra, Sada\u015bwa. The son of P\u00e1ra was Prithu; his son was Sukriti; his son was Vibhr\u00e1tra 33; his son was Anuha, who married Kritw\u00ed, the daughter of \u015auka (the son of Vy\u00e1sa), and had by her Brahmadatta 34;\nhis son was Vi\u015bwaksena; his son was Udaksena 35; and his son was Bhall\u00e1t\u0301a 36.\nThe son of Dwim\u00edd\u0301ha 37 was Yav\u00ednara; his son was Dhritimat 38; his son was Satyadhriti; his son was Drid\u0301hanemi; his son was Sup\u00e1r\u015bwa 39; his son was Sumati; his son was Sannatimat; his son was Krita, to whom Hira\u0144yan\u00e1bha taught the philosophy of the Yoga, and he compiled twenty-four Sanhit\u00e1s (or compendia) for the use of the eastern Brahmans, who study the S\u00e1ma-veda 40. The son of Krita was Ugr\u00e1yudha, by whose prowess the N\u00edpa race of Kshatriyas was destroyed 41; his son was Kshemya; his son was Suv\u00edra; his son was Nripanjaya 42; his son was Bahuratha. These were all called Pauravas.\nAjam\u00edd\u0301ha had a wife called N\u00edlin\u00ed, and by her he had a son named N\u00edla; his son was \u015a\u00e1nti; his son was \u015au\u015b\u00e1nti; his son was Puruj\u00e1nu 43; his son was Chakshu 44; his son was Haryya\u015bwa 45, who had five sons,\n[paragraph continues] Mudgala, \u015arinjaya 46, Vrihadishu, Prav\u00edra 47, and K\u00e1mpilya 48. Their father said, \"These my five (pancha) sons are able (alam) to protect the countries;\" and hence they were termed the P\u00e1nch\u00e1las 49. From Mudgala descended the Maudgalya Brahmans 50: he had also a son named Bahwa\u015bwa 51, who had two children, twins, a son and daughter, Divod\u00e1sa and Ahaly\u00e1. The son of \u015aaradwat or Gautama by Ahaly\u00e1 was \u015aat\u00e1nanda 52; his son was Satyadhriti, who was a proficient in military science. Being enamoured of the nymph Urva\u015b\u00ed, Satyadhriti was the parent of two children, a boy and a girl. \u015a\u00e1ntanu, a Raja, whilst hunting, found these children exposed in a clump of long \u015aara grass; and, compassionating their condition, took them, and brought them up. As they were nurtured through pity (krip\u00e1), they were called Kripa and Krip\u00ed. The latter became the wife of Dro\u0144a, and the mother of Aswatth\u00e1man.\nThe son of Divod\u00e1sa was Mitr\u00e1yu 53; his son was Chyavana; his son\nwas Sud\u00e1sa; his son was Saud\u00e1sa, also called Sahadeva; his son was Somaka; he had a hundred sons, of whom Jantu was the eldest, and Prishata the youngest. The son of Prishata was Drupada; his son was Dhrisht\u0301adyumna; his son was Drisht\u0301aketu.\nAnother son of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha was named Riksha 54; his son was Samvara\u0144a; his son was Kuru, who gave his name to the holy district Kurukshetra; his sons were Sudhanush, Jahnu, Par\u00edkshit, and many others 55. The son of Sudhanush was Suhotra; his son was Chyavana; his son was Kr\u00edtaka 56; his son was Uparichara the Vasu 57, who had seven children, Vrihadratha, Pratyagra, Ku\u015b\u00e1mba, M\u00e1vella, Matsya, and others. The son of Vrihadratha was Ku\u015b\u00e1gra; his son was Rishabha 58; his son was Pushpavat; his son was Satyadhrita 59; his son was Sudhanwan; and his son was Jantu. Vrihadratha had another son, who being born in two\nparts, which were put together (sandhita) by a female fiend named Jar\u00e1, he was denominated Jar\u00e1sandha 60; his son was Sahadeva; his son was Som\u00e1pi 61; his son was Sruta\u015bravas 62. These were kings of Magadh\u00e1.\n447:1 Abhayada: V\u00e1yu. V\u00edtamaya: Agni. V\u00e1t\u00e1yudha: Matsya. Ch\u00e1rup\u00e1da: Bh\u00e1gavata. The Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, \u00c1di P., p. 136, 138, has two accounts of the descendants of Puru, differing materially in the beginning from each other, and from the lists of the Pur\u00e1\u0144as. In the first, Prav\u00edra is made the son of Puru; his son is Manasyu, who has three sons, \u015aakta, Sanhanana, and V\u00e1gmin; and there the line stops. Another son of Puru is Raudr\u00e1\u015bwa, whose sons are Richeyu and the rest, as in our text; making them the second in descent, instead of the eleventh. In the second list, the son of Puru is Janamejaya, whose successors are Pr\u00e1chinvat, Samy\u00e1ti, Ahamy\u00e1ti, \u015aarvabhauma, Jayatsena, Av\u00e1ch\u00edna, Ariha, Mah\u00e1bhauma, Ayutan\u00e1yin, Akrodhana, Dev\u00e1tithi, Ariha, Riksha, Matin\u00e1ra, who is therefore the fifteenth from Puru, instead of the fourth as in the first account, or the twelfth as in the text.\n447:2 Dhundu: V\u00e1yu. \u015aambhu: Agni. Sudhanwan: Br\u00e1hma.\n447:3 Bahuvidha: Agni and Matsya.\n447:4 Samp\u00e1ti: Agni.\n447:5 Omitted: V\u00e1yu. Bahuv\u00e1din: Matsya.\n447:6 Bhadr\u00e1\u015bwa: Matsya.\n447:7 R\u00e1jeyu: V\u00e1yu. Richeyu: Agni. They were the sons of the Apsaras Ghrit\u00e1ch\u00ed: or of Misrake\u015b\u00ed: Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata. The Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V. have very unaccountably, and in opposition to all other authorities, transferred the whole of the descendants of Anu to this family; substituting for Anu the second name in our text, Kaksheyu. (p. 444.)\n447:8 The V\u00e1yu names also ten daughters, Rudr\u00e1, \u015a\u00fadr\u00e1, Madr\u00e1, Subh\u00e1g\u00e1, Amalaj\u00e1, Tal\u00e1, Khal\u00e1, Gopaj\u00e1l\u00e1, T\u00e1mraras\u00e1, and Ratnak\u00fat\u00ed; and adds that they were married to Prabh\u00e1kara, a Rishi of the race of Atri. The Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V. have a legend of the birth of Soma, the moon, from him and one of these ten; who succeeded to the power and prerogatives of Atri. The sons of the other wives were less distinguished, but they formed families eminent amongst holy Brahmans, called Swasty\u00e1treyas.\n447:9 Atim\u00e1ra or Atibh\u00e1ra: Bh\u00e1gavata. p. 448 Antin\u00e1ra: Matsya. Matin\u00e1ra: Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, Agni and Br\u00e1hma. According to the Matsya and Hari V. (not in the Br\u00e1hma P.), Gaur\u00ed, the daughter of this prince, was the mother of M\u00e1ndh\u00e1tri, of the family of Ikshw\u00e1ku.\n448:10 In place of these the Matsya has Am\u00farttirayas and Nrichandra, and there are several varieties in the nomenclature. In place of the first we have Vasu or Trasu, V\u00e1yu; Tansurogha, Agni; Tansurodha, Br\u00e1hma; and Sumati, Bh\u00e1gavata. Pratiratha is read for the second in the Agni and Brahm\u00e1; and for the third, Suratha, Agni; Sub\u00e1hu, Hari V.\n448:11 Medh\u00e1tithi is the author of many hymns in the Rig-veda, and we have therefore Brahmans and religious teachers descended from Kshatriyas.\n448:12 Malina: V\u00e1yu. Raibhya: Bh\u00e1gavata. Dharmanetra: Br\u00e1hma P. The Hari V. omits him, making sad blundering work of the whole passage. Thus the construction is such as to intimate that Tansu or Tansurodha had a wife named Il\u00e1, the daughter of Medh\u00e1tithi; that is, his brother's great-granddaughter: but this, as the commentator observes, is contrary to common sense, and he would read it therefore, 'The daughter of him who was named Ilin;' a Raja so called: but in the V\u00e1yu and Matsya we have Ilin\u00e1, the daughter of Yama, married to Tansu, and mother of Malina or Anila; more correctly perhaps Ailina. The blunder of the Hari V. therefore arises from the compiler's reading Yasya, 'of whom,' instead of Yamasya, 'Yama.' It is not an error of transcription, for the metre requires Yasya, and the remark of the commentator proves the correctness of the reading. The name occurs \u00cdlina, the son of Tansu, in the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, agreeably to the Anuvan\u015ba \u015bloka, which is there quoted. 'Saraswat\u00ed bore Tansu to Matin\u00e1ra, and Tansu begot a son, \u00cdlina, by K\u00e1ling\u00ed.'\n448:13 The V\u00e1yu, Matsya, and Bh\u00e1gavata agree with our text in making these the grandsons of Tansu: even the Br\u00e1hma P. concurs, but the Hari V. makes them his sons, having apparently transformed Tansosuta, the son of Tansu, into a synonyme of Tansu, or Tansurodha; as in these parallel passages: 'The son of Tansu was the illustrious sage Dharmanetra: Upad\u00e1nav\u00ed had from him four excellent sons.' Br\u00e1hma P. 'Tansurodha was a royal sage, the illustrious institutor of laws. Upad\u00e1nav\u00ed had four sons from Tansurodha.' Hari V. The commentator explains Dharmanetra to be 'institutor p. 449 of laws.' We have Upad\u00e1nav\u00ed before, as the daughter of Vrishaparvan the Daitya, married to Hira\u0144y\u00e1ksha. Hamilton (Buchanan) calls her the wife of Sughora. The four sons are named in other authorities, with some variations: Dushyanta, Sushyanta or Rishyanta or Sumanta, Prav\u00edra and Anagha or Naya. The Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata enumerates five, Dushyanta, \u015a\u00fara, Bh\u00edma, Vasu, and Pravasu, but makes them the sons of \u00cdlina and grandsons of Tansu.\n449:14 These two \u015alokas are taken from the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, \u00c1di Parvan, p. 112, and are part of the testimony borne by a heavenly messenger to the birth of Bharata. They are repeated in the same book, in the account of the family of Puru, p. 139. They occur, with a slight variation of the order, in other Pur\u00e1\u0144as, as the V\u00e1yu, &c., and shew the greater antiquity of the story of \u015aakuntal\u00e1, although they do not narrate it. The meaning of the name Bharata is differently explained in \u015aakuntal\u00e1; he is said to be so called from supporting' the world: he is also there named \u015aarvadamana, 'the conqueror of all.'\n449:15 The Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V., the latter especially, appear to have modified this legend, with the view perhaps of reconciling those circumstances which are related of Bharadw\u00e1ja as a sage with his p. 450 history as a king. Whilst therefore they state that Bharadw\u00e1ja was brought by the winds to Bharata, they state that he was so brought to perform a sacrifice, by which a son was born, whom Bharadw\u00e1ja also inaugurated. In the V\u00e1yu, Matsya, and Agni, however, the story is much more consistently narrated; and Bharadw\u00e1ja, being abandoned by his natural parent, is brought by the winds, as a child, not as a sage; and being adopted by Bharata, is one and the same with Vitatha, as our text relates. Thus in the V\u00e1yu, the Maruts bring to Bharata, already sacrificing for progeny, Bharadw\u00e1ja, the son of Vrihaspati; and Bharata receiving him, says, \"This Bharadw\u00e1ja shall be Vitatha.\" The Matsya also says, the Maruts in compassion took the child, and being pleased with Bharata's worship, gave it to him, and he was named Vitatha. And the Agni tells the whole story in one verse: 'Then the son of Vrihaspati, being taken by the winds; Bharadw\u00e1ja was transferred with sacrifice, and was Vitatha.' The account given in the Bh\u00e1gavata is to the same purpose. The commentator on the text also makes the matter clear enough: 'The name of Bharadw\u00e1ja in the condition of son of Bharata was Vitatha.' It is clear that a new-born infant could not be the officiating priest at a sacrifice for his own adoption, whatever the compiler of the Hari Van\u015ba may please to assert. From Bharadw\u00e1ja, a Brahman by birth, and king by adoption, descended Brahmans and Kshatriyas, the children of two fathers: The Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, in the \u00c1di Parvan, tells the story very simply. In one place, p. 136. v. 3710, it says that Bharata, on the birth of his children proving vain, obtained from Bharadw\u00e1ja, by great sacrifices, a son, Bh\u00famanyu; and in another passage it makes Bh\u00famanyu the son of Bharata by Sunand\u00e1, daughter of \u015aarvasena, king of K\u00e1\u015b\u00ed; p. 139. v. 3785. The two are not incompatible.\n450:16 Manyu: Bh\u00e1gavata. Suketu: Agni. But the Br\u00e1hma and Hari V. omit this and the next generation, and make Suhotra, Anuhotra, Gaya, Garga, and Kapila the sons of Vitatha: they then assign to Suhotra two sons, K\u00e1\u015b\u00edka and Ghritsamati, and identify them and their descendants with the progeny of \u00c1yu, who were kings of K\u00e1\u015b\u00ed (see p. 409. n. 15); a piece of confusion unwarranted by any other authority except the Agni.\n450:17 Vrihat, Ah\u00e1rya, Nara, Garga: Matsya.\n450:18 Guruv\u00edrya and Trideva: V\u00e1yu. The first is called Gurudh\u00ed, Matsya; and Guru, p. 451 Bh\u00e1gavata: they agree in Rantideva. The Bh\u00e1gavata describes the great liberality of this prince, and his practice of Yoga. According to a legend preserved in the Megha Duta, his sacrifices of kine were so numerous, that their blood formed the river Charmanvat\u00ed, the modern Chambal.\n451:19 \u015aivi: Matsya.\n451:20 The other authorities concur in this statement; thus furnishing an additional instance of one caste proceeding from another. No reason is assigned: the commentator says it was from some cause.\n451:21 Durbhakshaya: V\u00e1yu. Urukshat: Matsya. Duritakshaya: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n451:22 Trayy\u00e1ru\u0144i, Pushkar\u00e1ru\u0144i, Kavi; all became Brahmans: ### Matsya: and there were three chief branches of the K\u00e1vyas, or descendants of Kavi; ### Gargas, Sankritis, and K\u00e1vyas. Ibid.\n451:23 In the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, Suhotra is the son of Bh\u00famanyu; and in one place the father of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha, &c., and in another of Hastin. The Br\u00e1hma P. in some degree, and the Hari Van\u015ba in a still greater, have made most extraordinary confusion in the instance of this name. In our text and in all the best authorities we have three Suhotras, perfectly distinct: 1. Suhotra great-grandson of Am\u00e1vasu, father of Jahnu, and ancestor of Visw\u00e1mitra and the Kau\u015bikas (see p. 308); 2. Suhotra son of Kshatravriddha, and grandson of Ayus, and progenitor of the race of K\u00e1\u015b\u00ed kings (p. 406); and 3. Suhotra the son of Vrihatkshatra, grandson of Vitatha, and parent of Hastin. In the two blundering compilations mentioned, we have, first (Hari V. c. 20), a Suhotra son of Vrihatkshatra, of the race of Puru; his descent is not given, but, from the names which follow Suhotra, the dynasty is that of our present text: secondly (Hari V. c. 27), Suhotra son of K\u00e1nchana, of the line of Am\u00e1vasu, and father of Jahnu, &c.: thirdly (Hari V. c. 29), Suhotra the son of Kshatravriddha, and progenitor of the K\u00e1\u015b\u00ed kings: fourthly (Hari V. 32), we have the first and third of these personages confounded; Suhotra is made the son of Vitatha, and progenitor of the K\u00e1\u015b\u00ed kings, the dynasty of whom is repeated; thus connecting them with the line of Puru instead of \u00c1yus, in opposition to all authority. Again, we have a notable piece of confusion, and Suhotra the son of Vitatha is made the father of Vrihat, the father of the three princes who in our text and in the Hari V. (c. 20) are the sons of Hastin; and amongst whom Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha is made the father of Jahnu, and ancestor of the Kau\u015bikas, instead of being, as in c. 27, and as every where else, of the family of Am\u00e1vasu. The source of all this confusion is obvious. The compilers extracted all the authentic traditions accurately enough, but, puzzled by the identity of name, they have also p. 452 mixed the different accounts together, and caused very absurd and needless perplexity. It is quite clear also that the Hari Vanua does not deserve the pains taken, and taken fruitlessly, by Mr. Hamilton and M. Langlois to reduce it to consistency. It is of no weight whatever as an authority for the dynasties of kings, although it furnishes some particular details, which it has picked up possibly from authentic sources not now available.\n452:24 It was finally ruined by the encroachments of the Ganges, but vestiges of it were, at least until lately, to be traced along the river, nearly in a line with Delhi, about sixty miles to the east.\n452:25 In one place, son of Suhotra; in another, grandson of Hastin: Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata.\n452:26 The copies agree in this reading, yet it can scarcely be correct. Ka\u0144wa has already been noticed as the son of Apratiratha. According to the Bh\u00e1gavata, the elder son of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha was Priyamedhas, from whom a tribe of Brahmans descended. The Matsya has Vrihaddhanush, and names the wife of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha, Dh\u00famin\u00ed. It also however, along with the V\u00e1yu, makes Ka\u0144wa the son of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha by his wife Kesin\u00ed.\n452:27 Vrihaddhanush: Bh\u00e1gavata. Also called Vrihaddharman: Hari V.\n452:28 Vrihatkaya: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n452:29 Satyajit: Hari V.\n452:30 A\u015bwajit: Matsya. Vi\u015bada: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n| Bh\u00e1gavata. | Matsya. | Hari V. | \n| Ruchir\u00e1\u015bwa | Ruchir\u00e1\u015bwa | Ruchira | \n| K\u00e1\u015bya | K\u00e1\u015bya | \u015awetaketu | \n| Drid\u0301hahanu | Drid\u0301h\u00e1\u015bwa | Mahimn\u00e1ra | \n| Vatsa | Vatsa k. of Avanti. | Vatsa k. of Avanti. | \n452:32 K\u00e1mpilya appears to be the Kampil of the Mohammedans, situated in the Doab. It was included in southern P\u00e1nch\u00e1la. The Matsya makes Samara the son of K\u00e1\u015bya.\n452:33 Vibhr\u00e1ja in MSS., also in the V\u00e1yu.\n452:34 The Bh\u00e1gavata omits the descents subsequent to N\u00edpa, and makes Brahmadatta the son of N\u00edpa by Sukriti. In the Hari V. is a curious legend of the different transmigrations of Brahmadatta and his six companions, who were successively as many Brahmans, then foresters, then p. 453 deer, then water-fowl, then swans, and finally Brahmans again, when with the king they obtained liberation. According to the Bh\u00e1gavata, Brahmadatta composed a treatise on the Yoga, a Yoga tantra.\n453:35 Da\u0144d\u0301asena: Hari V.\n453:36 Bhall\u00e1ka: V\u00e1yu. Bhall\u00e1da: Bh\u00e1gavata. The V\u00e1yu makes him the last of the race. The Hari V. adds that he was killed by Kar\u0144a. The Matsya names his successor Janamejaya, when the race of the N\u00edpas was exterminated by Ugr\u00e1yudha; as noticed below.\n453:37 So the V\u00e1yu and Bh\u00e1gavata. The Matsya and Hari V., with less consistency, derive this family also from Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha.\n453:38 Kritimat: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n453:39 Between these two the V\u00e1yu inserts Mahat and Rukmaratha. The Matsya, Sudhanwan, \u015aarvabhauma, Mah\u00e1paurava, and Rukmadhara. The Br\u00e1hma P., Sudharman, \u015aarvabhauma, Mahat, and Rukmaratha.\n453:40 The Bh\u00e1gavata says he was the author of six Sanhit\u00e1s of the S\u00e1ma-veda. (See p. 282.)\n453:41 The Hari V. says he killed N\u00edpa, the grandfather of Prishata, but it had previously stated that it was the son of Bhall\u00e1t\u0301a, several descents after N\u00edpa, who was killed by Ugr\u00e1yudha: and again (c. 32), Prishata, conformably to other authorities, appears as the father of Drupada, in the family of \u015arinjaya. The Hari V. relates the destruction of Ugr\u00e1yudha by Bh\u00edshma, in consequence of his demanding in marriage the widow of \u015a\u00e1ntanu: after which, Prishata, it is said, recovered possession of K\u00e1mpilya.\n453:42 Puranjaya: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n453:43 Puruj\u00e1ti: V\u00e1yu. Puruja: Bh\u00e1gavata. The Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V. omit N\u00edla and \u015a\u00e1nti.\n453:44 Riksha: V\u00e1yu. Prithu: Matsya. Arka: Bh\u00e1gavata. Omitted: Br\u00e1hma.\n453:45 B\u00e1hy\u00e1swa: Agni. Bhadr\u00e1\u015bwa: Mats. Bharmyaswa: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n454:46 Jaya: Matsya. Sanjaya: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n454:47 Yav\u00ednara: Agni and Bh\u00e1gavata. Jav\u00ednara: Matsya.\n454:48 Kapila: Mats. Krimil\u00e1\u015bwa: Br\u00e1hma.\n454:49 P\u00e1nch\u00e1la was at first the country north and west of Delhi, between the foot of the Him\u00e1laya and the Chambal. It was afterwards divided into northern and southern P\u00e1nch\u00e1la, separated by the Ganges. M\u00e1kandi on the Ganges and K\u00e1mpilya were the chief cities of the latter; Ahikshetra in the former. The P\u00e1nch\u00e1las, according to the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, expelled Samvara\u0144a from Hastin\u00e1pur, but it was recovered by Kuru. The purport of the term P\u00e1nch\u00e1la is similarly explained in other Pur\u00e1\u0144as. In the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata they are the grandsons of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha.\n454:50 The Matsya says that they, as well as the K\u00e1\u0144was, were all followers or partisans of Angiras: ###. The Hari V. has nearly the same words.\n454:51 Badhry\u00e1\u015bwa: V\u00e1yu. Panch\u00e1\u015bwa: Agni. Bandhy\u00e1\u015bwa: Matsya. Bh\u00e1rmya: Bh\u00e1gavata. But there is some indistinctness as to his descent. The Matsya and Hari V. give the son of Mudgala only his patronymic Maudgalya. According to the first, his son was Indrasena; and his son, Bandhy\u00e1\u015bwa. The second makes Badhry\u00e1\u015bwa the son of Maudgalya by Indrasena. The Bh\u00e1gavata makes Bh\u00e1rmya, the patronymic of Mudgala, the son of Bharmy\u00e1\u015bwa, and who is the father of Divod\u00e1sa and Ahaly\u00e1: ###. The commentator has, ###.\n454:52 In the R\u00e1maya\u0144a, \u015aat\u00e1nanda appears as the family priest of Janaka, the father of \u015a\u00edt\u00e1.\n454:53 From whom the Maitreya Brahmans were descended: Hari V. In the Matsya and Agni the son of Mitr\u00e1yu is called Maitreya (see p. 3). The Br\u00e1hma P. and Hari V. here close the lineage of p. 455 Divod\u00e1sa: the Agni adds but one name, Som\u00e1pi. They then proceed with the descendants of \u015arinjaya, one of the P\u00e1nch\u00e1las, or Panchadhanush, Somadatta, Sahadeva, and then as in our text. The V\u00e1yu and Bh\u00e1gavata agree with the latter in making the line continuous from Divod\u00e1sa. According to the Matsya and Br\u00e1hma P. the race of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha became extinct in the person of Sahadeva, but Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha himself was reborn as Somaka, in order to continue his lineage, which was thence called the Somaka family. It was in the reign of Drupada that the possessions of the P\u00e1nch\u00e1las were divided; Dro\u0144a, assisted by the P\u00e1\u0144d\u0301avas, conquering the country, and ceding the southern portion again to Drupada, as related in the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata. The two princes last named in the list figure in the great war.\n455:54 The Hari V. gives him two brothers, Dh\u00famravar\u0144a and Sudar\u015bana. In the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata one list agrees with the text; the other calls Samvara\u0144a the son of Ajam\u00edd\u0301ha by his wife Riksh\u00e1.\n455:55 One other is named in the Bh\u00e1gavata, Matsya, Br\u00e1hma, and Agni; Animejaya, Arimarddana, and Nishadh\u00e1\u015bwa. The Hari V. has Sudhanwat in place of Jahnu; having also Sudhanush.\n455:56 Krita: V\u00e1yu. Kritayajna: Br\u00e1hma. Krimi: Matsya. Kriti: Bh\u00e1gavata.\n455:57 The story of Uparichara, or a Vasu who by command of Indra became king of Chedi, is told in the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, \u00c1di Parvan (vol. I. p. 85). He is there said to have at first five sons, Vrihadratha, king of Magadh\u00e1, Pratyagra, Ku\u015b\u00e1mba, also called Maniv\u00e1hana, M\u00e1vella, and Yadu, by his wife Girik\u00e1; afterwards he has, by Adrik\u00e1, an Apsaras condemned to the form of a fish, Matsya a son, and Satyavat\u00ed or K\u00e1l\u00ed a daughter: the latter was the mother of Vy\u00e1sa. The same legend is referred to in the accounts of Uparichara and his family in the Bh\u00e1gavata, Matsya, Hari V., &c.\n455:58 Vrishabha: Matsya.\n455:59 Satyahita: V\u00e1yu. Satyahita: Bh\u00e1gavata. Satyadhrita or Pushya: Matsya.\n456:60 This story is told in the 16th section of the Sabh\u00e1 Parvan of the Mah\u00e1bh\u00e1rata, where also he is called the son of Vrihadratha. In the V\u00e1yu he is the son of Satyahita. The Agni has Satyahita, Urjja, Sambhava, Jar\u00e1sandha; and the Matsya, Satyadhrita, Dhanusha, \u015aarva, Sambhava, Jar\u00e1sandha.\n456:61 Som\u00e1dhi: V\u00e1yu. Ud\u00e1pi: Agni. Ud\u00e1yus: Br\u00e1hma. Somavit: Matsya.\n456:62 \u015arutakarman: Agni. \u015aruta\u015barman Br\u00e1hma.","title":"The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter XIX","type":"page"}