translated by A Taluqdar [Zamindar] of Oudh
edited by Major B.D. Basu, I.M.S.
1916
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Contents:
• Chapter 1 Benediction. At the end of the long sacrifice, Sannaka and other Risis engaged in holy conversation asked Suta, well versed in Pauranic lores, the cause of the Lord assuming the form of a fish, how did Mahadeva become Bhairava and Purari and for what reason did he become a mendicant. At that Suta told Sannaka and other Risis the reason of the Lord assuming the form of a fish and the meeting of Matsya and Manu... 1-6.
• Chapter 2 Then being ordained by the Lord, Manu tying his boat to the tentacles of the divine fish, using the serpent as rope, and saluting Janardana after the deluge was over, seated on the boat asked the Lord, who was in the form of the fish, the origin and the end of the Universe and the Laws of Gift and Sraddha and about the division of caste, etc. At that the Lord Narayana told him the origin of the Universe and its end... 6-9.
• Chapter 3 Manu's question to Matsya as to how the Lord Brahma became four-faced and how did he create the Universe. Then the origin from Brahma of the Veda and the origin of Marichi, the ten mental ones, and the origin of Daksa, the ten corporal ones, as told by Matsya, and the appearance of the five faces of Brahma in order to see the beauty of Satarupa and the narration of the origin of Swayambhu and others... 9-12.
• Chapter 4 The description of the 1st creation. Absence of sin on the part of Brahma by going to his own daughter. Manu's question to Matsya as to the advisability of the marriage relations between Sagotras and their children. Matsya's answer to the effect that it does not tend to the welfare of mankind in discussion the propriety or otherwise of the actions and conduct of gods. Then Brahma, who was ashamed on account of this incestuous connection with his daughter, cursed Kamadeva that he should be ere long turned into ashes by Mahadeva. Being pleased with his solicitations he gave him a boon that he would be born again. Then Manu's production of Vamadeva and others in Satrupas. From Vamadeva the origin of Brahmanas. Then the production of Priyavrata and Uttanapada in his wife Ananti by Manu of austere penance. From Uttanapada the birth of Dhruva by his wife Sunita. The attainment of the boon of getting a fixed place by Brahma as a result of his penances lasting for three thousand years. Dhrua produced a virtuous son in the daughter of Manu Dhanya. Sista produced Kripadi through Suchaya, daughter of Agni. The begetting of Daksa by the ten Prachetas in Marisa, the daughter of Moon. Then the narration of the birth of 80 crores of beings ... 12-16.
• Chapter 5 The description of the birth of gods and others. Then Daksa, seeing the final journey undertaken his thousand sons by advice of Narada, produced on Panchjavi. He produced another thousand sons known as Shavala. They, too, went the path of their brothers at Narada's instigations. Then after that he produced sixty daughters and gave them to Dharma and others. Then the birth of Kartikeya in the clumps of reed. And the description of the birth of all the different gods from those girls ... 16-18.
• Chapter 6 The description of Kasyapa's family ... 18-21.
• Chapter 7 The birth of sons of Ditis known as Marutas. There at Siawantpanchak, on the banks of Saraswati, Didi, whose sons were killed practising austere penances, in order to get sons performed in due rites the vrata of Madan Dwadasi. By virtue of the vrata Lord Kasyapa appeared and offered her a boon. At that Diti asked for sons who would be killers of Indra and afflictors of all devas. Kasyapa, too, according to his vow, gave her the desired boon. Indra, hearing about Kasyapa's boon to Diti, feigning to serve her mother and finding a loop-hole, viz., that she went to sleep without washing her feet, entered the womb of Diti and cut her sons by vajra into seven parts and again cut each of those parts into seven parts. Then determining that, by the virtue of the greatness of Krisna puja, she cannot be killed, appeased the awakened mother, saying 'Don't weep.' Let the Marutas become the participators of sacrifice and taking Diti on an aerial car went to Heaven along with Maruta and others ... 21-26.
• Chapter 8 Treats of the anointment for kingship. Then Brahma, in the sovereignty of the earth, made Chandrama the lord of medicinal herbs, sacrifices, fasts and penances; stars, planets, Brahmanas, trees, thickets and creepers; Varuna of waters; Kubera of wealth; Visnu of all suns; Fire of all vasus; Daksa of prajapati; Indra of wind; Prahlada of demons; Yama of manes; Siva of demons and others; the Himalayas of mountains; the Ocean of waters; Chitraratha of gandharvas and others; Vasuka of serpents; Taksaka of other snakes; Airavata of elephants; the Peacock of birds; Uchaisrava of horses; the Lion of other beasts; the Bull of the cows; and the Trees of the herbs. The devas Sadharma, Sankhapada, Ketumana and Hiranyaromana were made kings of all four directions, east, south, west and north respectively. They still protect the universe by ruling over the directions by destroying the enemies ... 26-27.
• Chapter 9 The description of Manvantara. The order of names of those sons ... 27-29
• Chapter 10 The description of Vena family. As vena, the son of Sunctha, the daughter of Mrityu of Anga Prajapati, was engaged in sinful deeds, the sages in order to bring about law and order approached him, but when the king did not pay heed to their counsel they killed him by their curse and being afraid of anarchy, the sinless Brahmanas churned his body by force. By churning his body the races of Mlecchas came out of his body black as soot being the portion of evil qualities of his mother; and from the portion of his father appeared the right hand with great difficult a most brilliant heavenly figure armed with bow and arrow and club of the name of Prithu. Being anointed by the Brahmanas he practised severe austerities and by the blessings of Vishnu became most powerful. Seeing the earth devoid of all righteous deeds Prithu prepared himself to burn her by his anger and who trembling took the form of a cow and began to run. She stopped and asked what to do. The king making Swayambhu Manu as the calf milked the cow with his own hands of the desired-for grains for all the world, moving or fixed. Then the description of how the sages milked the earth using the moon as the calf ... 29-32.
• Chapter 11 The description of the meeting of Budha in the history of the lunar and solar races, Rajni, the daughter of Vivaswat a Raivat a brought forth Raivata, Prabha gave birth to Prabhat, Samjni, the daughter of Visvakarma, became the mother of Manu. She also gave birth to Yama and Yamuna, who were twins. Then Samjni, unable to bear the power of the Sun, producing one lady from her body known as Chhaya and directing her to stay near him went away elsewhere. The Sun mistaking her to be Samjna satisfied his desires. He produced from her Savarni Manu of the same Varna and Sani and Tapati and Visti. Then Yama seeing that she pays more attention to her sons becoming angry threw a kick on his mother. Learning from the lips of Twastra that this is Chhaya and hearing "Samjna came to was in the form of Vadawa, uncalled and stayed in the country of Maru he being passionate going there in the form of a horse enjoyed with her. Samjna doubting that he was some one else threw his semen through her nostrils. The two Asirnis were born out of that seed. Vaivasata Manu had ten powerful sons, Ikswaku and others, out of whom Ila, in order to win the whole earth, visited all the countries and reached the garden of Sambhu and was transformed into a woman by the curse of Siva. Budha, the son of the Moon, looks at her while wandering in the forest and desires to marry. She, too, lived with him for long ... 32-35.
• Chapter 12 The brothers of Ila set out in search of the king and reaching the hermitage of Budha saw the horse; "the splendour of the Meru" turns into a mare, and hearing the cause from the lips of Vasistha began to please Siva. The Lord Siva said that if the Ikswaku performed the Aswamedha sacrifice he would become a Kimpurusa. They performed the sacrifice and Ila became a Kimpurusa. For one month assuming the form of a woman and for another that of man and staying in the house of Budha, Ila became pregnant. Pururava became the increaser of the lunar dynasty. Ila came to be called Sudumna after Kimprusa and from her were born three sons Utkala and others. He crowing Pururava in Pratisthana went to Ilavrita to enjoy the glory of the race of the sun ... 36-39.
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21
• Chapter 22
• Chapter 23
• Chapter 24
• Chapter 25
• Chapter 26
• Chapter 27
• Chapter 28
• Chapter 29
• Chapter 30
• Chapter 31
• Chapter 32
• Chapter 33
• Chapter 34
• Chapter 35
• Chapter 36
• Chapter 37
• Chapter 38
• Chapter 39
• Chapter 40
• Chapter 41
• Chapter 42
• Chapter 43
• Chapter 44
• Chapter 45
• Chapter 46
• Chapter 47
• Chapter 48
• Chapter 49
• Chapter 50
• Chapter 51
• Chapter 52
• Chapter 53
• Chapter 54
• Chapter 55
• Chapter 56
• Chapter 57
• Chapter 58
• Chapter 59
• Chapter 60
• Chapter 61
• Chapter 62
• Chapter 63
• Chapter 64
• Chapter 65
• Chapter 66
• Chapter 67
• Chapter 68
• Chapter 69
• Chapter 70
• Chapter 71
• Chapter 72
• Chapter 73
• Chapter 74
• Chapter 75
• Chapter 76
• Chapter 77
• Chapter 78
• Chapter 79
• Chapter 80
• Chapter 81
• Chapter 82
• Chapter 83
• Chapter 84
• Chapter 85
• Chapter 86
• Chapter 87
• Chapter 88
• Chapter 89
• Chapter 90
• Chapter 91
• Chapter 92
• Chapter 93
• Chapter 94
• Chapter 95
• Chapter 96
• Chapter 97
• Chapter 98
• Chapter 99
• Chapter 100
• Chapter 101
• Chapter 102
• Chapter 103
• Chapter 104
• Chapter 105
• Chapter 106
• Chapter 107
• Chapter 108
• Chapter 109
• Chapter 110
• Chapter 111
• Chapter 112
• Chapter 113
• Chapter 114
• Chapter 115
• Chapter 116
• Chapter 117
• Chapter 118
• Chapter 119
• Chapter 120
• Chapter 121
• Chapter 122
• Chapter 123
• Chapter 124
• Chapter 125
• Chapter 126
• Chapter 127
• Chapter 128
• Chapter 129
• Chapter 130
• Chapter 131
• Chapter 132
• Chapter 133
• Chapter 134
• Chapter 135
• Chapter 136
• Chapter 137
• Chapter 138
• Chapter 139
• Chapter 140
• Chapter 141
• Chapter 142
• Chapter 143
• Chapter 144
• Chapter 145
• Chapter 146
• Chapter 147
• Chapter 148
• Chapter 149
• Chapter 150
• Chapter 151
• Chapter 152
• Chapter 153
• Chapter 154
• Chapter 155
• Chapter 156
• Chapter 157
• Chapter 158
• Chapter 159
• Chapter 160
• Chapter 161
• Chapter 162
• Chapter 163
• Chapter 164
• Chapter 165
• Chapter 166
• Chapter 167
• Chapter 168
• Chapter 169
• Chapter 170
• Chapter 171
• Chapter 172
• Chapter 173
• Chapter 174
• Chapter 175
• Chapter 176
• Chapter 177
• Chapter 178
• Chapter 179
• Chapter 180
• Chapter 181
• Chapter 182
• Chapter 183
• Chapter 184
• Chapter 185
• Chapter 186
• Chapter 187
• Chapter 188
• Chapter 189
• Chapter 190
• Chapter 191
• Chapter 192
• Chapter 193
• Chapter 194
• Chapter 195
• Chapter 196
• Chapter 197
• Chapter 198
• Chapter 199
• Chapter 200
• Chapter 201
• Chapter 202
• Chapter 203
• Chapter 204
• Chapter 205
• Chapter 206
• Chapter 207
• Chapter 208
• Chapter 209
• Chapter 210
• Chapter 211
• Chapter 212
• Chapter 213
• Chapter 214
• Chapter 215
• Chapter 216
• Chapter 217
• Chapter 218
• Chapter 219
• Chapter 220
• Chapter 221
• Chapter 222
• Chapter 223
• Chapter 224
• Chapter 225
• Chapter 226
• Chapter 227
• Chapter 228
• Chapter 229
• Chapter 230
• Chapter 231
• Chapter 232
• Chapter 233
• Chapter 234
• Chapter 235
• Chapter 236
• Chapter 237
• Chapter 238
• Chapter 239
• Chapter 240
• Chapter 241
• Chapter 242
• Chapter 243
• Chapter 244
• Chapter 245
• Chapter 246
• Chapter 247
• Chapter 248
• Chapter 249
• Chapter 250
• Chapter 251
• Chapter 252
• Chapter 253
• Chapter 254
• Chapter 255
• Chapter 256
• Chapter 257
• Chapter 258
• Chapter 259
• Chapter 260
• Chapter 261
• Chapter 262
• Chapter 263
• Chapter 264
• Chapter 265
• Chapter 266
• Chapter 267
• Chapter 268
• Chapter 269
• Chapter 270
• Chapter 271
• Chapter 272
• Chapter 273
• Chapter 274
• Chapter 275
• Chapter 276
• Chapter 277
• Chapter 278
• Chapter 279
• Chapter 280
• Chapter 281
• Chapter 282
• Chapter 283
• Chapter 284
• Chapter 285
• Chapter 286
• Chapter 287
• Chapter 288
• Chapter 289
• Chapter 290
• Chapter 291