MahaBharata
MAHABHARATA VIEWPOINTS:
REASON HISTORY CHANGES IS BECUZ VICTORS WRITE IT. A LOOK AT THE VEDAS, AND THE FOLLOWING WRITINGS IS CLEAR EVIDENCE. THE ASURAS WERE ONCE GOOD BUT THE FOLLOWING WRITINGS TURN THEM INTO DEMON MONSTERS. EVEN THE CREATOR GOD DAKSHA BECOMES A SCAPEGOAT, THEN A GOD OF DEATH AND THE UNDERWORLD. BAD MAY ACTUALLY BE GOOD, AND GOOD MAY ACTUALLY BE BAD DEPENDING ON WHAT SIDE YOU ARE ON BUT THE VICTOR HAS FINAL SAY. MAHABHARATA IS THE GREAT BHARATS, OR GREAT PRITHA, OR GREAT BRIT WHICH SHOWS A LINK BETWEEN INDIA AND BRITAIN...
DAKSHA HAS SIMILARITIES TO RAM HEADED CREATOR KNUM. DAKSHA IS CHIEF OF THE BHARATS. HE IS PRAJAPATI THE SON OF BRAHMAN. DAKSHA HAD MANY DAUGHTERS INCLUDING DITI AND ADITI WHO WERE WIVES TO THE GREAT FATHER MUNI KASI OPA OF WHICH THE ASURA AND THE DEVA CELESTIALS COME FROM. THUS THE BHARATS OR BRITS ARE SAME RACE AS ASURA AND DEVA GODS WITH DAKSHA THEIR CHIEF CREATOR...
Daksha
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thou art the progenitor of creation in the form of Daksha and the other Prajapatis;...
The daughters of Daksha are, O tiger among men and prince of the Bharata race, Aditi, Diti, Danu, Kala, Danayu, Sinhika, Krodha, Pradha, Viswa, Vinata, Kapila, Muni, and Kadru....
sprung from the right toe of Brahman. And from the left toe of Brahman sprang the wife of the high-souled Daksha....
And Daksha bestowed, according to the sacred ordinance, ten of his daughters on Dharma, twenty-seven on Chandra the Moon, and thirteen on Kasyapa....
It is from Daksha that all creatures have sprung...
Like thee, I also have a daughter of Daksha for my mother and Kasyapa for my father....
After this, Brahman created, by a flat of his will, seven sons with Daksha completing the tale. They were Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, and the already mentioned Daksha....
That son, O chief of Bharata's race, was Daksha, the progenitor of creatures
Unto Daksha were first born three and ten daughters, O Bharata, the eldest of whom was called Diti....
The highly-blessed Daksha besides the three and ten already spoken of next begat ten other daughters.
The progenitor of creatures, viz, the righteous Daksha, bestowed these upon Dharma...
Daksha next begat seven and twenty other younger daughters....
The ten Prachetasas had one son between them, viz, the Prajapati called by the name of Daksha.
This last has two names in the world, viz, Daksha and Kasyapa....
Maheswara said, O lady that art highly blessed, the excellent Prajapati Daksha is adoring the gods in a Horse-sacrifice....
SECTION CCLXXXIV Janamejaya said, How O Brahmana, was the Horse-sacrifice of the Prajapati Daksha, the son of Prachetas, destroyed during the age of Vaivaswata Manu?...
Having obtained that boon from Bhava, Daksha knelt down to him and adored that deity having the bull for his mark, by uttering his thousand and eight names'...
Daksha said, I bow to thee, O lord of all the gods to the destroyer of the forces of the Asuras....
Brahman, Sthanu, Manu, Daksha, Bhrigu, Dharma, Yama, Marichi, Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Vasishtha, Parameshthi, Vivaswat, Shoma, he that has been called Karddama, Krodha, Avak, and Krita, these one and twenty persons, called Prajapatis, were first born....
Incensed at the destruction of his sacrifice by Rudra, Daksha once more set himself to the practice of severe austerities and attaining to high puissance caused something like a third eye to appear on the forehead of Rudra for the destruction of Tripurasura...
The Prajapati Daksha became the father of sixty daughters....
Incensed at this representation of his daughters, the celestial Rishi Daksha cursed Shoma, saying, that thenceforth the disease phthisis should assail his son-in-law and dwell in him. Through this curse of Daksha, phthisis assailed the puissant Shoma and entered into his body....
In consequence, however, of the curse denounced upon him in days of old by Daksha, Shoma, to this day, begins to wane from the night of the full moon till his total disappearance on the night of the new moon whence he once more begins to wax till the night of full moon....
I was the son of Brahma, created before all others, by a fiat of his will although I had to take birth afterwards as the son of Daksha through a curse of that Rishi....
Daksha, in his turn, imparted it to the eldest of all the sons of his daughters, O monarch, viz, Aditya who is senior in age to Savitri....
In days of yore, the Self-born Brahman commanded the Rishi Daksha, saying, Do thou create living creatures!...
Daksha saw that it gave birth to a cow which he named Surabhi....
Having said these words, the lord of creatures, Daksha, made a present unto Mahadeva of a bull with certain kine. Daksha gratified the heart of Rudra, O Bharata, with that present, Mahadeva, thus gratified, made that bull his vehicle....
Vyasa thereupon said, As the numerous offspring of the Prajapati Daksha, the Asuras and the Celestials challenged each other to encounter, so in the same way Angira's sons, the exceedingly energetic Vrihaspati and the ascetic, Samvarta, of equal vows, challenged each other, O king....
Varhi
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In Atri's race was born the eternal and divine Varhi the ancient, who had penances for his origin. From Varhi the ancient sprang the ten Prachetasas....
Prachetasas
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From Varhi the ancient sprang the ten Prachetasas.
The ten Prachetasas had one son between them, viz, the Prajapati called by the name of Daksha.
Prajapatis
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Then appeared the twenty-one Prajapatis, viz, Manu, Vasishtha and Parameshthi; ten Prachetas, Daksha, and the seven sons of Daksha....
And Daksha, Prachetas, Pulaha, Marichi, the master Kasyapa, Bhrigu, Atri, and Vasistha and Gautama, and also Angiras, and Pulastya, Kraut, Prahlada, and Kardama, these Prajapatis, and Angirasa of the Atharvan Veda, the Valikhilyas, the Marichipas; Intelligence, Space, Knowledge, Air, Heat, Water, Earth, Sound, Touch, Form, Taste, Scent; Nature, and the Modes of Nature, and the elemental and prime causes of the world, all stay in that mansion beside the lord Brahma....
Brahman, Sthanu, Manu, Daksha, Bhrigu, Dharma, Yama, Marichi, Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Vasishtha, Parameshthi, Vivaswat, Shoma, he that has been called Karddama, Krodha, Avak, and Krita, these one and twenty persons, called Prajapatis, were first born...
Behold also in my body all the Prajapatis and behold the seven Rishis also....
Then, on one occasion, the Rishis, the Gandharvas, the Kinnaras, the Uragas, the Rakshasas, the Deities, the Asuras, the winged creatures and the Prajapatis, O thou of Kuru's race, all assembled together and adored the Grandsire....
By such conduct thou hast honoured and maintained the authority of thyself, the scriptures, the auditions of the Vedas, the Pitris and the Rishis, the Grandsire Brahman himself, and those seniors, viz, the Prajapatis....
THE ASURAS TOOK CONTROL OF THE OCEANS AFTER THE WAR BETWEEN THE GODS AND THE ASURAS. THE ASURA WERE DESCRIBED AS MONSTERS. THE FOMORIANS WERE ALSO SEA CREATURES DESCRIBED AS MONSTERS, AND HAD HEAD OF RAMS AND BUFFALOS.
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And the gods and the Asuras made of Mandara a churning staff and Vasuki the cord, and set about churning the deep for amrita. The Asuras held Vasuki by the hood and the gods held him by the tail....
Seeing all these wondrous things, the Asuras were filled with despair, and got themselves prepared for entering into hostilities with the gods for the possession of Lakshmi and Amrita.... And thus on the shores of the salt-water sea, commenced the dreadful battle of the gods and the Asuras....And mangled with the discus and wounded with swords, darts and maces, the Asuras in large numbers vomited blood and lay prostrate on the earth....Their bodies drenched in gore, the great Asuras lay dead everywhere....
On their way they saw the Ocean, that receptacle of waters, vast and deep, rolling and tremendously roaring, full of fishes large enough to swallow the whale, and abounding with huge makaras and creatures of various forms by thousands, and rendered inaccessible by the presence of other terrible, monster-shaped, dark, and fierce aquatic animals, abounding with tortoises and crocodiles, the mine of all kinds of gems, the home of Varuna the water-God, the excellent and beautiful residence of the Nagas, the lord of all rivers, the abode of the subterranean fire, the friend or asylum of the Asuras, the terror of all creatures, the grand reservoir of water, and ever immutable....
And Agni replied, O, ye persecutors of the Asuras, it is not as ye imagine....
Such a thing had never happened even during the war between the gods and the Asuras....
And, O bull of the Bharata race, when such was the blessed state of the terrestrial world, the Asuras, O lord of men, began to be born in kingly lines....
And the Creator then commanded all the gods saying, To ease the Earth of her burden, go ye and have your births in her according to your respective parts and seek ye strife with the Asuras already born there....
And the dwellers in heaven gradually became incarnate on earth for the destruction of the Asuras and for the welfare of the three worlds.
And Danayu also had four sons who were bulls among the Asuras...
And Sukra, the son of a Rishi, was the chief priest of the Asuras. And the celebrated Sukra had four sons who were priests of the Asuras....
And Kasyapa's offspring are the gods and the Asuras....
The destruction of the Asuras on earth is the work of the celestials, and, therefore, it is our work as well....
The Asuras also slew on the field of battle many of the celestials....
Devayani then replied, I am the daughter of Sukra who brings back into life the Asuras slain by the gods....
Many Asuras of immeasurable might, pierced with Krishna's arrows and smitten with the force of his discus, became motionless like waifs and strays stranded on the bank by the violence of the waves....
Indeed, it was upon that car that Indra and Vishnu had fought of old in the battle with the Asuras in which Taraka the wife of Vrihaspati had become the immediate cause of much slaughter....
One day Vali asked his grand-father Prahlada, the chief of the Asuras and the Danavas, possessed of great wisdom and well-versed in the mysteries of the science of duty, saying, O sire, is forgiveness meritorious or might and energy such?...
Behold, O bull among kings, the Asuras, though elder brothers in possession of power and affluence, were all vanquished by the gods through stratagem....
Thou art incapable of being vanquished by the three worlds of the celestials, the Asuras, and men...
The gods practised virtue, while the Asuras abandoned it. The gods visited the tirthas, while the Asuras did not visit them. And at first the sinful Asuras were possessed with pride....
And that prince of Asuras received them hospitably, entertaining them, O son of the Kuru race, with well dressed meat supplied by his brother Vatapi transformed into a ram....
Unable, however, to find them out, for the Asuras had sought refuge in the depths of the sea, these brave men came back to their homes gratified with the search....
Markandeya said, When that horrible conflict between the gods and the Asuras was over, Indra became the ruler of the three worlds....
Indeed the Brahmanas slay with anger like Indra slaying the Asuras with his thunder-bolt....
And it was by thee that the Asuras in the height of their power were destroyed!... He created the terrible Asuras and various other creatures of the earth.... In ancient times the gods and Asuras were very active in destroying one another.... And the terrible Asuras always succeeded in defeating the gods....
Diti, the mother of the Daityas Asuras, is also called Muhkamandika, and that terrible creature is very fond of the flesh of little children....
Then the Asuras, drums struck up and their shrill bugles were sounded; and the Danava chiefs yelled their terrific war-cry....
And beholding Rama united with the daughter of Janaka, the charioteer of Sakra, highly pleased, addressed him in the midst of friends, and said these words, O thou of prowess that can never be baffled thou hast dispelled the sorrow of the celestials, the Gandharvas, the Yakshas, the Asuras, the Nagas, and human beings!...
O Indra, O great lord, by slaying Asuras, thou hast delivered the worlds....
Even as, when Dharma became extinct, Kali was born in the race of Asuras flourishing with prosperity and blazing with energy, so was born Udavarta among the Haihayas....
Thou, O hero, art the foremost of all friends of both the Pandavas and the Kurus, even as Prajapati is of both the gods and the Asuras....
Thus addressed, Jamadagni's son, the friend of Brahma, that lord of both gods and Asuras,...
Here dwell, O Matali, those Asuras called Kalakhanjas who sprang from Vishnu, and those Rakshasas also called Yatudhanas who sprang from the feet of Brahman....
The gods, uniting with the Asuras, and making the Mandara mountain their pole, churned the waters of the ocean and obtained the wine called Varuni, and the Goddess of Prosperity and Grace called Lakshmi, and Amrita, and that prince of steeds called Uchchhaisrava, and that best of gems called Kaustubha....
Defeated before-hand by Matali, the Asuras are subsequently slain by Indra....
Indeed, O Bharata, when the population of the worlds was divided into two parties and was about to be slaughtered, the divine and holy Cause of the universe, viz, the Creator, said, The Asuras and the Daityas with the Danavas will be vanquished, and the Adityas, the Vasus, the Rudras and other dwellers of heaven will be victorious....
The Sweta mountains are said to be the abode of the celestial and the Asuras....
And beholding on the way the mountain Mainaka and the base of the Gandhamadana and that rocky mass Sweta and many a crystal rivulet higher and higher up the mountain, he reached on the seventeenth day the sacred slopes of the Himalayas....
O thou that art always fond of buffalo's blood, O thou that wert born in the race of Kusika, O thou that art dressed in yellow robes, O thou that hadst devoured Asuras assuming the face of a wolf, I bow to thee that art fond of battle!...
And the battle that took place there was fierce and awful, making the hair stand on end, like the terrible battle that took place between the gods and the Asuras in days of yore.... And slaughtering the Asuras there for happiness of all the worlds, and establishing righteousness, and winning renown, Thou wilt again truly attain to Yoga.... I said unto him, For the slaughter of the Asuras take thy birth in the world of men,... Therefore, the Lord Vasudeva of immeasurable prowess should never be disregarded as a man by all the Asuras and the gods with Indra at their head. And although the son of Pandu was there in the very midst of the Kaurava array, yet fear entered not his heart, as it did not that of Indra while surrounded by the Danavas in the fierce battle of old between the celestials and the Asuras.... Arjuna also in that battle, excited with rage, fought against many bulls of the Kshatriya race, like the wielder of the thunder-bolt against the Asuras....
Indeed, the mighty-armed Rama slew in battle that descendant of Pulastya's race with all his kinsmen and followers, that Rakshasa who was incapable of being slain by the gods and the Asuras together, that wretch who was a thorn unto the gods and the Brahmanas....
Once on a time, the tall trees of the forest, the mountains, the gods, the Asuras, men, the snakes, the seven Rishis, the Apsaras, and the Pitris, all came to Prithu, seated at his ease, and addressing him, said, Thou art our Emperor....
The very gods with the Asuras united together and with Indra at their head had failed to vanquish Arjuna, that foremost of all wielders of weapons, having Krishna only for his ally....The battle that took place between them, and in which each party counteracted the feats of the other' resembled the encounter between Sakra and the Danavas in the great battle fought of yore between the gods and the Asuras....
Afflicted by the Asuras, all the gods sought the protection of Rudra. Thus addressed by the gods, Mahadeva thus accepted their request, moved by the desire of benefiting them, and said, I will overthrow these Asuras....
Those Asuras then, filled with joy at having obtained those boons and having settled it among themselves about the construction of the three cities, selected for the purpose the great Asura Maya, the celestial artificer, knowing no fatigue or decay, and worshipped by all the daityas and danavas....
The Asuras are all of wicked souls and always hate the gods. Therefore, ye gods, see now to my car and bow and shaft so that I may, this very day, throw the Asuras down on the Earth'...
O king, do the gods ever wish for anything else than the slaughter of their kinsmen the Asuras?... The Asuras were the elder, and the gods the younger brothers....
This Pride, O king, led many among the gods and the Asuras to ruin....
A deceitful person, falling away from all duties and abandoning those of his own order, always wishes to betake himself to the practices of Asuras for supporting life....
The puissant Varuna was installed into the sovereignty of the waters and the Asuras....
Indeed, those foremost of Asuras, filled with pride, forsook every friendly intercourse with other creatures. Although Rudra was alone and single-handed, yet so quickly did he move on the field of battle with the sword in his arm that the Asuras thought there were a thousand similar Rudras battling with them....
The offspring of Diti were the Asuras. Diti gave birth to all the Asuras of great strength. In former days, the principal Danavas, endued with wrath and cupidity, and mighty Asuras numbering by hundreds and drunk with might, and innumerable other Danavas that were invincible in battle, became exceedingly jealous of the unrivalled prosperity of the gods....
The highest of the high, and without change or deterioration himself, he created the Pitris, the gods, the Rishis, the Yakshas, the Rakshasas, the Nagas, the Asuras, and human beings....
Darkness or pride and cruelty, which is destructive of the former, has been adopted by the Asuras.... It should be known that the qualities of Goodness, Passion and Darkness belong to the deities and the Asuras. Goodness is the attribute of the deities; while the two others belong to the Asuras....
It is for this reason that that lord of all creatures, viz, Kasyapa, the common sire of the deities and the Asuras, called me by the name Vrishakapi.... The sons of the sage Kasyapa, viz, the deities and the Asuras, quarrelled with each other on account of the sovereignty of the three worlds.... The deities and the Asuras are children of even one common sire, and yet the latter quarrelled with each other....
Thou art the preceptor of both the deities and the Asuras being as thou art of the form of both Vrihaspati and Sukra.... Thou art the grantor of boons unto the deities and Asuras in the form of Brahman and Rudra....
In consequence of having disregarded the Brahmanas, the Asuras have been obliged to take refuge in the depths of the ocean....
The goat is Fire for it given, it leads to the region of the deity of fire; the sheep is Varuna for if leads to the region of Varuna the lord of waters; the horse is Surya for if leads to the region of Surya; elephants are Nagas for they lead to the world of Nagas; buffaloes are Asuras for they lead to the region of Asuras; cocks and boars are Rakshasas for they lead to the regions of the Rakshasas, O delighter of the Bhrigus; earth is sacrifice, kine, water, and Soma for it leads to the merits of sacrifice, and to the region of kine, of the lord of waters and of Soma....
Whatever, again, is given with malice, and whatever is given without reverence, have been ordained by Brahmana himself as the portion of the prince of Asuras viz, Vali.... Even thus did the learned Kavi of Bhrigu's race discourse to Vali, the chief of the Asuras....
In this treatise, called Bharata, O foremost one of Bharatas race, are to be seen in one place the eternal Rudras, the Saddhyas, and the Viswedevas; the Adityas, the two deities named the Ashvinis, the regents of the World, the great Rishis, the Guhyakas, the Gandharvas, the Nagas, the Vidyadharas, the Siddhas, the diverse deities, the Self-born visible in a body, with many ascetics; the Hills and Mountains, Oceans and Seas and Rivers, the diverse tribes of Apsaras; the Planets, the Years, the Half-years, and the Seasons; and the whole universe of mobile and immobile entities, with all the gods and Asuras.
BHARATA DISPELLS THE FEAR OF EVIL. COMPOSED BY RISHI VYASA. KING BHARATA IS THE SON OF SAKUNTALA (MOTHER) AND DUSHMANTA (FATHER. PURU'S RACE). FROM THESE DESCEND OF THE KURUS, OF THE YADUS, AND OF BHARATA; OF YAYATI, OF IKSHWAKU; AND OF RAJARSHIS. WHEN THE TERRESTIAL WORLD WAS IN A BLESSED STATE IT WAS THE ASURAS WHO WERE LORD OVER MEN IN A KINGLY LINE. THIS TREATISE CALLED BHARATA IS THE FOREMOST ONE OF THE BHARATA RACE ARE TO BE SEEN IN ONE PLACE WITH ALL THE GODS AND ASURAS.
Bharata
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We are desirous of hearing that history also called Bharata, the holy composition of the wonderful Vyasa, which dispelleth the fear of evil, just as it was cheerfully recited by the Rishi Vaisampayana, under the direction of Dwaipayana himself, at the snake-sacrifice of Raja Janamejaya'...
From these are descended the family of the Kurus, of the Yadus, and of Bharata; the family of Yayati and of Ikshwaku; also of all the Rajarshis....
It was not till after these were born, grown up, and departed on the supreme journey, that the great Rishi Vyasa published the Bharata in this region of mankind;.... Vyasa executed the compilation of the Bharata, exclusive of the episodes originally in twenty-four thousand verses; and so much only is called by the learned as the Bharata....
In former days, having placed the four Vedas on one side and the Bharata on the other, these were weighed in the balance by the celestials assembled for that purpose.
And as the latter weighed heavier than the four Vedas with their mysteries, from that period it hath been called in the world Mahabharata the great Bharata.
The Sambhava parva narrates the birth of various kings and heroes, and that of the sage, Krishna Dwaipayana: the partial incarnations of deities, the generation of Danavas and Yakshas of great prowess, and serpents, Gandharvas, birds, and of all creatures; and lastly, of the life and adventures of king Bharata, the progenitor of the line that goes by his name, the son born of Sakuntala in the hermitage of the ascetic Kanwa...
And, O bull of the Bharata race, when such was the blessed state of the terrestrial world, the Asuras, O lord of men, began to be born in kingly lines....
And, O Bharata, Creator as he is of the universe, why should he not know fully what is in the minds of his creatures including the very gods and the Asuras?... And, O bull in the Bharata race, the Danavas, Rakshasas and Gandharvas and Snakes, could not slay the incarnate celestials even in their infancy, so strong they were'...
The time has come, O Bharata, for you all to attain to the highest goal....
The puissant Island-born Krishna, who will not have to come back, and who is Emancipation incarnate, made an abstract of the Bharata, moved by the desire of aiding the cause of righteousness....
In this treatise, called Bharata, O foremost one of Bharatas race, are to be seen in one place the eternal Rudras, the Saddhyas, and the Viswedevas; the Adityas, the two deities named the Ashvinis, the regents of the World, the great Rishis, the Guhyakas, the Gandharvas, the Nagas, the Vidyadharas, the Siddhas, the diverse deities, the Self-born visible in a body, with many ascetics; the Hills and Mountains, Oceans and Seas and Rivers, the diverse tribes of Apsaras; the Planets, the Years, the Half-years, and the Seasons; and the whole universe of mobile and immobile entities, with all the gods and Asuras....
Hear how a person that is devoted to truth and sincerity, that is self-restrained, pure in mind, and observant of those acts which lead to purity of body, that is endued with faith, and that has subjugated wrath, attains to success in the matter of a recitation of the Bharata....
At the ninth Parana, he acquires, O Bharata, the fruits of that foremost of sacrifices, viz, the Horse-sacrifice.... The Dakshina ordained in the scriptures for the great Horse-sacrifice is the Earth.... Thus addressed, the foremost one of Kuru's race, along with all his brothers, became glad of soul, and gave away millions of golden coins, in fact, trebling the Dakshina ordained for the Horse-sacrifice....
In the Vedas, in the Ramayana, and in the sacred Bharata, O chief of Bharatas race, Hari is sung in the beginning, the middle, and at the end....
One desirous of attaining to the fruits that attach to a recitation of the Bharata should, according to ones power, give unto the reciter Dakshina, as also an honorarium in gold....
Sakauntala
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Therefore, O Dushmanta, cherish, O monarch, thy son born of Sakuntala.... Therefore, O thou of Puru's race, cherish thy high-souled son born of Sakuntala, And because this child is to be cherished by thee even at our word, therefore shall this thy son be known by the name of Bharata the cherished'... And Dushmanta had by his wife Sakuntala an intelligent son named Bharata who became king.... And Dushmanta took to wife Sakuntala, the daughter of Viswamitra....
And the royal sage then sported with her, as Surya with Prabhavati, Agni with Swaha, Vasava with Sachi, Chandra with Rohini, Yama with Urmila, Varuna with Gauri, Kuvera with Riddhi, Narayana with Lakshmi, Sagara with Jahnavi, Rudra with Rudrani, the Grandsire with Saraswati, Vasishtha's son Saktri with Adrisyanti, Vasishtha with Arundhati called also Akshamala, Chyavana with Sukanya, Pulastya with Sandhya, Agastya with the princess of Vidarbha Lopamudra, Satyavan with Savitri, Bhrigu with Puloma, Kasyapa with Aditi, Richika's son Jamadagni with Renuka, Kusika's son Viswamitra with Himavati, Vrihaspati with Tara, Sukra with Sataprava, Bhumipati with Bhumi, Pururavas with Urvasi, Richika with Satyavati, Manu with Saraswati, Dushyanta with Sakuntala, the eternal Dharma with Dhriti, Nala with Damayanti, Narada, with Satyavati, Jaratkaru with Jaratkaru, Pulastya with Pratichya, Urnayus with Menaka, Tumvuru with Rambha, Vasuki with Satasirsha, Dhananjaya with Kamari, Rama with the princess of Videha Sita, or Janardana with Rukmini....
The son of Sakuntala, having performed all these, gratified the Brahmanas with presents of wealth... Possessed of great fame, Bharata then gave ten thousand billions of coins, made of the most pure gold, unto Kanwa who had brought up his mother Sakuntala as his own daughter.... We hear, O Srinjaya, that the high-souled Bharata also, the son of Dushmanta and Sakuntala, who had a vast and well-filled treasury, fell a prey to death.
Uma
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Having said these words, Mahadeva, with his spouse Uma and with all his attendants disappeared from the view of Daksha of immeasurable prowess....
The daughter, named Uma, of the Himavat mountains, was desired by Rudra in marriage After Himavat had promised the hand of Uma to Mahadeva, the great Rishi Bhrigu, approaching Himavat, addressed him, saying, Give this daughter of thine unto me in marriage....
The cult known by the name of Pasupata was promulgated by the Lord of Uma, that master of all creatures, viz, the cheerful Siva, otherwise known by the name of Sreekantha, the son of Brahma....
All creatures of the feminine sex, have sprung from Ulna's nature as their cause, and hence it is they bear the mark of femininity that distinguishes Uma; while all creatures that are masculine, having sprung from Siva, bear the masculine mark that distinguishes Siva...
Every being with the mark of the masculine sex should be known to be of Isana, while every being with the mark of the feminine sex should be known to be of Uma....
He then worshipped with due rites both Rudra and his spouse Uma, and rested for some more time by the side of that lake in the course of the Vahuda whose shores he had reached....
Bending their heads with reverence and gratifying Mahadeva and his boon giving spouse Uma, both of whom were seated together, they addressed Rudra, O perpetuator of Bhrigu's race, saying, This union, O illustrious and sinless one, of thine with the goddess, is a union of one endued with penances with another of penances as severe!...
Samvarta said, There is a peak named Munjaban on the summits of the Himalaya mountains, where the adorable Lord of Uma Mahadeva is constantly engaged in austere devotional exercises.... There the mighty and worshipful god of great puissance, accompanied by his consort Uma, and armed with his trident, surrounded by wild goblins of many sorts, pursuing his random wish or fancy, constantly resides in the shade of giant forest trees, or in the caves, or on the rugged peaks of the great mountain....
And there the Rudras, the Saddhyas, Viswedevas, the Vasus, Yama, Varuna, and Kuvera with all his attendants, and the spirits and goblins, and the two Aswins, the Gandharvas, the Apsaras, the Yakshas, as also the celestial sages, the Sun-gods, as well as the gods presiding over the winds, and evil spirits of all sorts, worship the high-souled lord of Uma, possessed of diverse characteristics....
Know that the goddess Uma is the foremost and the most auspicious of women.
Bhava
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And cursed unexpectedly by the god owning a bull for his vehicle, Indra, with joined hands and shaking from head to foot, addressed that fierce god of multi-form manifestations, saying, Thou art, O Bhava, the over-looker of the infinite Universe'...
Indeed, their joy was as great as that of Indra and Vishnu when those two gods, desirous of slaying Jambha, obtained the permission of Bhava that slayer of great Asuras...
Thou art Bhava, thou art Mahadeva, thou art the abode of all things, and thou art the highest refuge....
Single-handed, he protected the Bharatas, and single-handed, he gratified Bhava....
Those righteous ones accompanied by rishis devoted to the severest penances and uttering the eternal words of the Vedas, sought Bhava with their whole soul.
Vishnu is, again, the Soul of the holy Bhava of immeasurable energy....
VALI IS BHARATA CHIEF OF DAITYAS. VALI IS KING OF THE DANAVAS. VALI IS SON OF VIROCHANA. VALI IS GRANDSON OF PRAHLADA THE CHIEF OF ASURAS AND DANAVAS. SON OF VALI IS VANA. THEY WORSHIP IN MANSION OF VARUNA. RAMA SHOOTS VALI IN THE HEART WITH AN ARROW. SUGRIVA TAKES KISHKINDHYA AND VALIS WIFE TARA. VAMANA THE DWARF DECEIVED VALI. VALI THEN REIGNS THE NETHERWORLD BY THE PROWESS OF VISHNU, AND INDRA RULES THE HEAVEN. VALI MAY HAVE REINCARNATED AS A BULL OR HORSE. BRAHMAN TELLS SAKRA DO NOT INJURE VALI....
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And unto Virochana was born a son, Vali, of great prowess. And the son of Vali is known to be the great Asura, Vana....
And the two warriors, like unto Indra and the Asura Virochana's son Vali, approaching each other for combat, began to grind each other's ranks....
And, O king, Vali the son of Virochana, and Naraka the subjugator of the whole Earth;...these Daityas and Danavas, all bedecked with ear-rings and floral wreaths and crowns, and attired in the celestial robes, all blessed with boons and possessed of great bravery, and enjoying immortality, and all well of conduct and of excellent vows, wait upon and worship in that mansion the illustrious Varuna, the deity bearing the noose as his weapon....
One day Vali asked his grand-father Prahlada, the chief of the Asuras and the Danavas, possessed of great wisdom and well-versed in the mysteries of the science of duty, saying, O sire, is forgiveness meritorious or might and energy such?... And that other great Asura also, Vali by name, was incapable of being slain by any one.... All the mighty monkey-kings, and monkey-chiefs used to wait upon that son of the sun, Sugriva, and that son of Sakra, Vali.... And the latter, having slain Vali installed Sugriva in the kingdom....
And that Being, arriving at the sacrificial enclosure of Vali, king of the Danavas, entered the sacrificial assembly with the aid of Vrihaspati.... And beholding that dwarf-bodied Being, Vali was well-pleased and said unto him, I am glad to see thee, O Brahmana!... Thus addressed by Vali, the dwarf-god replied with a smile, saying, So be it!...
There dwelleth, with four of his counsellors, Sugriva, the brother of the monkey-king Vali decked with a garland of gold.... And Rama also pledged himself to slay Vali in battle.... Unable to bear that challenge, Vali was for coming out but his wife Tara stood in way, saying, Himself endued with great strength, the way in which Sugriva is roaring, showeth, I ween, that he hath found assistance!...
Then addressing each other in these and other words of the same import, Vali and Sugriva rushed to the encounter, fighting with Sala and Tala trees and stones....And Rama, recognising Sugriva by that sign, then drew his foremost of huge bows, aiming at Vali as his mark....And Vali, pierced in the heart by that arrow, trembled in fear. And Vali, his heart having been pierced through, began to vomit forth blood.... And reproving that descendant of Kakutstha's race, Vali fell down on the ground and became senseless.... And after Vali had been thus slain, Sugriva regained possession of Kishkindhya, and along with it, of the widowed Tara also of face beautiful as the moon.... And virtuous Rama, dejected in spirits at the thought of Sita's captivity in the abode of the Rakshasa, addressed the heroic Lakshmana in the morning saying, Go, Lakshmana and seek in Kishkindhya that ungrateful king off the monkeys, who understand well his own interest and is even now indulging in dissipations, that foolish wretch of his race whom I have installed on a throne and to whom all apes and monkeys and bears owe allegiance, that fellow for whose sake, O mighty-armed perpetuator of Raghu's race, Vali was slain by me with thy help in the wood of Kishkindhya!...
The father-in-law of Vali, the illustrious Sushena, accompanied by a thousand crores of active apes, came to Rama.... Angada, the powerful son of Vali, little recking that stroke, hurled at Indrajit a mighty Sal stem.... Then how disguising himself in the form of a dwarf, he by his prowess deprived Vali of his kingdom, hath been heard by thee!...
And then between those lions among men, fired with wrath, between that chief of the Kichaka clan, and that best of men, there ensued a hand-to-hand encounter, like that between two powerful elephants for a female elephant in the season of spring, or like that which happened in days of yore between those lions among monkeys, the brothers Vali and Sugriva....
And, O bull of the Bharata race, the encounter that took place between Drona and Kunti's son was dreadful in the extreme and resembled that between Vali and Vasava... Thou didst bind the great Asura Vali and hadst raised Indra to the throne of heaven.... In covering, O Brahmana, the three worlds with three steps in the sacrifice of Vali the Asura king, Vishnu had covered this whole northern region; and, accordingly, there is a spot here called Vishnupada.... Indeed, after the fall of that foremost one of Bharata's race, the Kuru host looked like the firmament divested of stars, or like the sky without the atmosphere, or like the earth with blasted crops, or like an oration disfigured by bad grammar or like the Asura host of old after Vali had been smitten down,...
This encounter with thee hath always been desired by me, like the encounter of Sakra with Vali in the battle between the gods and the Asuras in days of old.... Then commenced a battle between Drona and the Pandavas, resembling that between Vali and the celestials for acquiring sovereignty oft the three worlds.... Indeed, the battle that took place between Bhima's son and Alayudha, was, O king, dreadful in the extreme, like that in days of old, O monarch, between Vali and Sugriva, those two princes among the monkeys.... Then like the chief of the celestials joyfully worshipping Vishnu after the subjugation of the Asura Vali, thy son, the king, accompanied by his brothers approaching the preceptor's son worshipped with great respect that warrior who is a complete master of the science of arms, after indeed, he had completed the task he had undertaken...
Beholding those two warriors that resembled Indra and Virochana's son Vali carefully preparing for battle for the conquest of the three worlds, all creatures were filled with wonder.... Then Duryodhana challenged all the Pandavas to battle, O chief of Bharata's race, like the Asura Vali in days of yore challenging the gods... Then Duryodhana challenged all the Pandavas to battle, O chief of Bharata's race, like the Asura Vali in days of yore challenging all the celestials... Today he will know the awful might of the high-souled Bhima when Duryodhana will be slain in battle even as the Asura Vali was slain by Indra....
O lord of Sachi, Vali may now have taken his birth among camels or bulls or asses or horses, and having become the foremost of his species may now be staying in an empty apartment'... Brahman said, Do not, O Sakra, injure Vali, Vali does not deserve death.... Virochana's son Vali... Vali said, I do not know whether she is an Asura damsel or a celestial one or a human one.... The chief of the Daityas, viz, Vali, thus deserted by Sree...
It is for this reason, O Vali, that I do not hurl my thunderbolt upon thy head.... Bhishma continued, Thus addressed by Indra, O Bharata, Vali, the chief of the Daityas, proceeded towards the south.... The thousand-eyed Indra, after having listened to this speech of Vali which was characterised by an entire absence of pride, then ascended the skies'... Indra also, seeing Vali staying unmoved and fearless, addressed him from the back of his foremost of elephants, saying, How is it, O Daitya, that thou art so unmoved?... Who else, O Vali, than one like thee, could venture to bear the burthen of existence after being shorn of the sovereignty of the three worlds'. Hearing without any pain these and other cutting speeches that Indra addressed to him, asserting the while his own superiority over him, Vali, the son of Virochana, fearlessly answered his interrogator, saying the following words'. Vali said, When calamities have oppressed me, O Sakra, what dost thou gain by such brag now?...
Unto Virochana the son of Prahlada will be born a mighty son of the name of Vali.... I shall taking the sovereignty of the three worlds Vali restore it to Indra of immeasurable splendour, and replace the deities, O Narada, in their respective stations.... As regards Vali, that foremost of Danavas, who is to be unslayable by all the deities, I shall cause him to dwell in the nether regions.... Vanquishing next the son of the Danava Vali, viz, Vana, who will be endued with a thousand arms, I shall next destroy all the inhabitants of the Danava city called Saubha... Vali, the son of Virochana, righteously bound by his promise, was consigned to the regions under the Earth, by the prowess of Vishnu.... Thou art Vamana the dwarf who deceived the Asura chief Vali and depriving him of his sovereignty restored it unto Indra.... Thou art the youngest son of Aditi and Kasyapa, being in the form of the dwarf who is otherwise known by the name of Upendra and who beguiled the Asura Vali of his lordship of the three worlds and restored it to the chief of the celestials....
Whatever, again, is given with malice, and whatever is given without reverence, have been ordained by Brahmana himself as the portion of the prince of Asuras viz, Vali.... These, O Madhava, are known as the Vali offerings.... The Vali should be offered to the Maruts and the deities in the interior of one's house.... When a man desires to offer Sraddha to his ancestors, he should, when the Sraddha ceremony is concluded, gratify his ancestors and then make the Vali offerings in due order.... One should offer the Vali unto the deities, bending one head in reverence.... The diverse rites with respect to the sacrificial fire, the collection of sacred fuel and of Kusa grass, as also of flowers, and the presentation of Vali consisting of food adorned with fried paddy reduced to powder, and the offer of incense and of light, all these, O monarch, occurred daily in the abode of that high-souled king while he dwelt in heaven.... The particular offerings called Vali should also be presented to the household deities....
He that took birth as a dwarf from Aditi by her husband Kasyapa in order to beguile the Asura king Vali of the sovereignty of the three worlds, and bestow the same upon Indra who had been dispossessed of it, He that is tall in allusion to the vast universal form of His which He assumed at the sacrifice of Vali for covering Heaven, Earth, and the Nether regions with three steps of His....
At that time the Danava king Vali was performing a Horse-sacrifice in the nether regions.
NARAKA, OF DANU RACE AN ASURA, DAITYA, OFFSPRING OF THE EARTH-FIRST BEGOTTEN IS SLAIN BY KRISHNA TO BECOME THE FIRST HORSE SACRIFICE AS THE SACRIFICIAL HORSE. THE SOUL OF SLAIN NARAKA ASSUMES THE FORM OF KARNA....
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The following ten, gifted with great strength and vigour, were also, O king, born in the race of Danu, Ekaksha, Amritapa of heroic courage, Pralamva and Naraka, Vatrapi, Satrutapana, and Satha, the great Asura; Gavishtha, and Vanayu, and the Danava called Dirghajiva.... Slaying the Asura Naraka, offspring of the Earth-first begotten, thou hadst obtained his ear-rings, and performed, O Krishna, the first horse-sacrifice offering up that Asura as the sacrificial horse!... O best of men, what ye see before you, of vast proportions like unto a mountain and beautiful as the Kailasa cliff, is a collection of the bones of the mighty Daitya Naraka, Being placed on a mountain, it looketh like one.... Thereupon Vishnu said, I know, O Sakra, that thy fear proceedeth from Naraka, that lord of the Daityas.... Then the exceedingly powerful Vishnu deprived Naraka of his senses by striking him with his hand....
The soul of the slain Naraka hath assumed the form of Karna.... And Karna also, his soul and faculties possessed by the inmost soul of Naraka, had at that time cruelly determined to slay Arjuna.... It was there that the mighty Naraka, the son of the Earth, kept the jewelled ear-rings of Aditi, having brought them by force.... It was there, that an encounter took place between the mighty' Naraka and Vishnu of immeasurable strength.... Slain by Krishna, Naraka lay lifeless there, like a Karnikara tree uprooted by the wind.... Having slain the Earth's son, Naraka, and also Mura, and having recovered those jewelled ear-rings, the learned Krishna of unparalleled prowess came back, adorned with beauty and undying fame....
Even as Mahendra slew Vritra, and Rama slew Ravana; even as Krishna slew Naraka or Mura in battle; even as the mighty Rama of Bhrigu's race slew the heroic Kartavirya, invincible in battle, with all his kinsmen and friends, after fighting a terrible battle celebrated through the three worlds; even as Skanda slew the Asura Mahisha, and Rudra slew the Asura Andhaka, even so hath Arjuna, O king, in single combat, slain, with all his kinsmen, that foremost of smiters, viz, Karna, who was invincible in battle and upon whom the Dhartarashtras had placed their hopes of victory, and who was the great cause of the hostility with the Pandavas!...
Prithu, Aila, Maya, Bhima, Naraka, Samvara, Aswagriva, Puloman, Swarbhanu, whose standard was of immeasurable height, Prahlada, Namuchi, Daksha, Vipprachitti, Virochana, Hrinisheva, Suhotra, Bhurihan, Pushavat, Vrisha, Satyepsu, Rishava, Vahu, Kapilaswa, Virupaka, Vana, Kartaswara, Vahni, Viswadanshtra, Nairiti, Sankocha, Varitaksha, Varaha, Aswa, Ruchiprabha, Viswajit, Pratirupa, Vrishanda, Vishkara, Madhu, Hiranyakasipu, the Danava Kaitabha, and many others that were Daityas and Danavas and Rakshasas, these and many more unnamed, belonging to remote and remoter ages, great Daityas and foremost of Danavas, whose names we have heard, indeed, many foremost of Daityas of former times, having gone away, leaving the Earth....
While residing in that city I shall slay the Asura Naraka, the son of the Earth, him, that is, who will do an injury to Aditi, as also some other Danavas of the names of Muru and Pitha.
PRAHLADA CHIEF OF ASURAS AND THE DANAVAS IS GRAND FATHER OF VALI. PRAHLADA STAYS IN MANSION BESIDE LORD BRAHMA. THE GODS REMOVED PRAHLADA AND DANAVAS FROM HEAVEN...
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One day Vali asked his grand-father Prahlada, the chief of the Asuras and the Danavas,...
The eldest of them all was Prahlada, the next was Sahradha; the third was Anuhrada; and after him were Sivi and Vashkala.... And, O Bharata, it is known everywhere that Prahlada had three sons.... He who had been known as Samhlada, the younger brother of Prahlada, became among men the famous Salya, that bull amongst Valhikas... He amongst the Asura who was known as Salabha the second, became on earth the monarch Prahlada in the country of the Valhikas....
And Daksha, Prachetas, Pulaha, Marichi, the master Kasyapa, Bhrigu, Atri, and Vasistha and Gautama, and also Angiras, and Pulastya, Kraut, Prahlada, and Kardama, these Prajapatis, and Angirasa of the Atharvan Veda, the Valikhilyas, the Marichipas; Intelligence, Space, Knowledge, Air, Heat, Water, Earth, Sound, Touch, Form, Taste, Scent; Nature, and the Modes of Nature, and the elemental and prime causes of the world, all stay in that mansion beside the lord Brahma....
There was of old a chief of the Daityas of the name Prahlada.... And after they had thus quarrelled with each other, they both made Prahlada the arbitrator to decide between them.... O bull of Bharata's race, this sloka sung of old by Prahlada when his kingdom had been wrested from him by the gods, hath been heard by us, Ye gods, that person whose standard of righteousness is always up, but whose sins are always concealed is said to adopt the behaviour of the cat in the story'...
Having slain in battle Jambha, Vritra, Vala, Paka, Satamaya, Virochana, the irresistible Namuchi, Samvara of innumerable illusions, Viprachitti, all these sons of Diti and Danu, as also Prahlada, I myself have become the chief of the celestials'...
Unto Virochana the son of Prahlada will be born a mighty son of the name of Vali....
I have banished the Kalakeyas to the earth, and removed the Danavas from heaven, and have terminated the existence of Prahlada in heaven...
THE OCEAN IS HOME OF VARUNA THE WATER GOD, AND RESIDENCE OF THE NAGAS, ABODE OF THE SUBTERRANEAN FIRE, FRIEND AND ASSYLUM OF THE ASURAS. DIVI, DAUGHTER OF SUKRA, IS ELDEST WIFE OF VARUNA. BEST OF BHARATAS RACE SON OF VARUNA WAS VASISHTHA THE MUNI LATER KNOWN AS APAVA. VARUNA GAVE KRISHNA A MACE THAT ROARS LIKE THUNDER NAMED KAUMODAKI CAPABLE OF SLAYING DAITYA'S. VARUNA IS WORSHIPPED BY ALL DAITYAS AND ADITYAS AND NAGAS. SUBHADRA THE COW OF UNIVERSAL FORM SUPPORTS THE WESTERN QUARTER RULED BY VARUNA WHERE HE FIRST ENTERED THE NETHERWORLD. KASI OPA INSTALLED VARUNA HERE AS KING OF THIS REGION.
HERE ARE THE WATERS OF THE THREE WORLDS. THE DAITYAS AND THE DANAVAS ARE BOUND TO THE OCEAN GUARDED ALWAYS BY VARUNA AS COMMANDED BY PARAMESHTHIN, LORD OF ALL CREATURES, TO DHARMA....
Varuna
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On their way they saw the Ocean, that receptacle of waters, vast and deep, rolling and tremendously roaring, full of fishes large enough to swallow the whale, and abounding with huge makaras and creatures of various forms by thousands, and rendered inaccessible by the presence of other terrible, monster-shaped, dark, and fierce aquatic animals, abounding with tortoises and crocodiles, the mine of all kinds of gems, the home of Varuna the water-God, the excellent and beautiful residence of the Nagas, the lord of all rivers, the abode of the subterranean fire, the friend or asylum of the Asuras, the terror of all creatures, the grand reservoir of water, and ever immutable....
And much time did not elapse from this, when the gods and the Asuras, assembling together, churned the abode of Varuna....
Indeed, thou art either Varuna, or Yama, the god of Justice.... And the daughter born of Sukra, named Divi, became the eldest wife of Varuna....
Vaisampayana continued, Thus addressed, the celestial daughter of Jahnu, Ganga, then replied unto the monarch, her husband, that bull amongst men, saying, O best of Bharata's race, he who was obtained as son by Varuna was called Vasishtha, the Muni who afterwards came to be known as Apava.... And, O best of Bharata's race, that foremost of virtuous men, the son of Varuna, practised his ascetic penances in those woods abounding with sweet roots and water.... Then the Kuru chief fixed the Varuna weapon on his bow-string, and with it afflicted the four steeds of king Salya....
And Dharti and Aryaman and Mitra and Varuna, Bhaga and Indra, Vivaswat, Pushan, Tvastri and Parjanya or Vishnu, these twelve Adityas came there to glorify Pandu's son....
Then Soma and Sakra and Varuna and Kuvera, the Sadhyas, the Rudras, the Vasus, the twin Aswins, these and other celestials went unto Prajapati, the Creator of the universe....
And the lord Varuna, after this, gave unto Krishna a mace, of name Kaumodaki, capable of slaying every Daitya and producing, when hurled, a roar like that of the thunder.... Yama, O king, took up the death-dealing mace, and Kuvera his spiked club, and Varuna his noose and beautiful missile.... O thou of fierce rays, this our human body dependeth on Varuna the water-god!... There is also in that lake a large conch-shell called Devadatta of loud sound, that came from Varuna.... I shall, however, describe unto thee the rooms of the king of the departed Yama, of Varuna Neptune of great intelligence, of Indra, the King of Gods and also of him who hath his home in Kailasha Kuvera....
I shall now describe unto the assembly house of Varuna also called Pushkaramalini...
Owned by Varuna, that delightful assembly house of pure white consists of many rooms and is furnished with many seats.... There sitteth Varuna attired in celestial robe, decked in celestial ornaments and jewels, with his queen, adorned with celestial scents and besmeared with paste of celestial fragrance.... The Adityas wait upon and worship the illustrious Varuna, the lord of the waters....
And, O king, Vali the son of Virochana, and Naraka the subjugator of the whole Earth; Sanghraha and Viprachitti, and those Danavas called Kalakanja; and Suhanu and Durmukha and Sankha and Sumanas and also Sumati; and Ghatodara, and Mahaparswa, and Karthana and also Pithara and Viswarupa, Swarupa and Virupa, Mahasiras; and Dasagriva, Vali, and Meghavasas and Dasavara; Tittiva, and Vitabhuta, and Sanghrada, and Indratapana, these Daityas and Danavas, all bedecked with ear-rings and floral wreaths and crowns, and attired in the celestial robes, all blessed with boons and possessed of great bravery, and enjoying immortality, and all well of conduct and of excellent vows, wait upon and worship in that mansion the illustrious Varuna, the deity bearing the noose as his weapon....
as also other rivers and sacred waters and lakes and wells and springs, and tanks, large or small, in their personified form, O Bharata, wait upon and worship the lord Varuna....The points of the heavens, the Earth, and all the Mountains, as also every species of aquatic animals, all worship Varuna there.... And various tribes of Gandharvas and Apsaras, devoted to music, both vocal and instrumental, wait upon Varuna, singing eulogistic hymns unto him. And the chief minister of Varuna, Sunabha by name, surrounded by his sons and grandsons, also attend upon his master, along with the personified form of a sacred water called go.... O bull of the Bharata race, such is the assembly room of Varuna seen by me before, in the course of my wanderings.... And, O master, almost all the Nagas, and principal Daityas, and rivers, and oceans, are to be found in the Sabha of Varuna....
Therefore, resolve thou earnestly to win victory, which belongeth to Indra; to control thy wrath, which belongeth to Yama; to give in charity, which belongeth to Kuvera; and to control all passions, which belongeth to Varuna....
And, O Yudhishthira, Arjuna of immeasurable prowess hath also acquired Vajras and Dandas and other celestial weapons from Yama and Kuvera and Varuna and Indra, O son of the Kuru race!... And thenceforth they made the ocean, that abode of Varuna, with billows high as hills, their fort, from which to make their sallies...
And when they saw that Vritra was slain by the sagacious Indra endued with a thousand eyes, they, to preserve their lives, entered into the ocean, that abode of Varuna.... Then they beheld the high-souled Agastya, the son of Varuna, of resplendent mien, and waited upon by saints, even as Brahma is waited upon by celestials.... And approaching him, they addressed the son of Mitra and Varuna at the hermitage, magnanimous and unswerving, and looking like an embodiment of pious works piled together, and glorified him by reciting his deeds.... Having heard the words of the gods, Agastya, the son of Mitra, and Varuna, said, Wherefore are ye come?...
Having spoken these few words, the unswerving offspring of Mitra and Varuna, full of wrath, began to drink up the sea, while all the worlds stood observing the deed.... And that same abode of Varuna namely the ocean, being thus, excavated by the united sons of Sagara and rent and cut on all sides round, was placed in a condition of the utmost distress.... Thus they went on digging the ocean, which was the abode of Varuna and an exceedingly long space of time expired in this work, but still the horse was not found....
Krishna of Madhu's race...
I have obtained from Rudra the Raudra, from Varuna the Varuna from Agni the Agneya, from the god of Wind the Vayava, and from Sakra the thunderbolt and other weapons.... Salya continued, While that best of Angira's race was thus speaking, there came that guardian of the world, Kuvera, and also Yama the son of Surya, and the old god Soma, and Varuna....
That illustrious cow, O Matali, of universal form, who supporteth the western quarter ruled by Varuna is known by the name of Subhadra.... It was here that Varuna first repaired to the nether regions, and attained to all his prosperity.... Garuda said, This quarter is the favourite one of king Varuna, the ruler of the ocean.... For ruling over all aquatic creatures and for the protection of the water themselves, illustrious and divine Kasyapa installed Varuna here as the king of this region....
Here, in the abode of Varuna, are the waters of the three worlds....
Thinking so, the Lord of all creatures, Parameshthin, commanded Dharma, saying, Binding fast, the Daityas and the Danavas, make them over to Varuna'. Thus addressed, Dharma, at the command of Parameshthin, binding the Daityas and the Danavas, made them over to Varuna. And Varuna, the Lord of the waters, having bound those Danavas, with Dharma's noose, as also with his own, keepeth them within the depths of the ocean, always guarding them carefully...
Aryans and Mlecchas, O Kauravya, and many races, O lord, mixed of the two elements, drink the waters of the following rivers,...
I am Ananta among Nagas, I am Varuna among acquatic beings, I am Aryaman among the Pitris, and Yama among those that judge and punish...
MLECCHAS ARE NEIGHBORS OF THE ARYANS. THEY ARE TRIBES OF THE NORTH AND BEST OF THE BHARATAS HAVING DECEPTIVE POWERS OF ASURA....
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Aryans and Mlecchas, O Kauravya, and many races, O lord, mixed of the two elements, drink the waters of the following rivers,...
Among the tribes of the north are the Mlecchas, and the Kruras, O best of the Bharatas; the Yavanas, the Chinas, the Kamvojas, the Darunas, and many Mleccha tribes; the Sukritvahas, the Kulatthas, the Hunas, and the Parasikas; the Ramanas, and the Dasamalikas....
There, O king, are no robbers, nor any tribes of Mlecchas.... He ruled the earth, freeing her from Mlecchas and the forest-thieves... Having performed a hundred Rajasuyas, a hundred Horse-sacrifices, a thousand Pundarikas, a hundred Vajapeyas, a thousand Atiratras, innumerable Chaturmasyas, diverse Agnishtomas, and many other kinds of sacrifices, in all of which he made profuse gifts unto the Brahmanas, he gave away unto the Brahmanas, having counted it first, the whole of the wealth that existed on the earth in the possession of Mlecchas and other Brahmana-hating people... And many Mlecchas on the backs of elephants, of diverse kinds of ugly forms, robed in diverse attires, O king, and armed with diverse kinds of weapons, and bathed in blood, looked resplendent as they lay on the field, deprived of life by means of diverse kinds of arrows...
And many terrible Yavanas and Paradas and Sakas and Valhikas, and Mlecchas born of the cow belonging to Vasishtha, of fierce eyes, accomplished in smiting looking like messengers of Death, and all conversant with the deceptive powers of the Asuras and many Darvabhisaras and Daradas and Pundras numbering by thousands, of bands, and together forming a force that was countless, began to shower their sharp shafts upon the son of Pandu.... Accomplished in various modes of warfare, those Mlecchas covered Arjuna with their arrows.... Dhananjaya, having by his arrows caused a shade over the troops like that of the clouds, slew, by the force of his weapons, all the Mlecchas, with heads completely shaved or half-shaved or covered with matted locks, impure in habits, and of crooked faces....
That division of the assembled Mlecchas that are all sinful and that come from the fastnesses of Himavat, seem at a distance to be of smoky colour....
Without causing their strength to be spent, urge the steeds slowly to where those hostile ranks are staying, that is, to where yonder warriors headed by Duryodhana, their hands cased in leathern fences, and yonder Kamvojas of fierce deeds, clad in mail and difficult of being defeated in battle, and those Yavanas armed with bow and arrows and skilled in smiting, and under Sakas and Daradas and Barbaras and Tamraliptakas, and other countless Mlecchas, armed with diverse weapons, are, to the spot I repeat where, indeed, yonder warriors headed by Duryodhana, their hands cased in leathern fences, are waiting with their faces turned towards me and inspired with the resolution of battling with me....
The Kauravas, with Suyodhana at their head, will today behold my prowess, when this division of Mlecchas, of shaved heads, will have been exterminated and the whole Kaurava army put to the greatest distress.... Struck by the brave Satyaki in that battle, the Mlecchas began to fall down on the earth in hundreds, deprived of life....
The mlecchas are the dirt of mankind: the oilmen are the dirt of the Mlecchas; eunuchs are the dirt of oilmen; they who avail of the priestly ministrations of Kshatriyas, in their sacrifices, are the dirt of eunuchs.... Ashvatthama and the other foremost of mighty car-warriors, and many ever-infuriate elephants shedding temporal secretions like the very clouds and ridden by brave Mlecchas, followed behind that car-force....
Of terrible deeds and exceedingly fierce, the Tusharas, the Yavanas, the Khasas, the Darvabhisaras, the Daradas, the Sakas, the Kamathas, the Ramathas, the Tanganas the Andhrakas, the Pulindas, the Kiratas of fierce prowess, the Mlecchas, the Mountaineers, and the races hailing from the sea-side, all endued with great wrath and great might, delighting in battle and armed with maces, these all, united with the Kurus and fighting wrathfully for Duryodhana's sake were incapable of being vanquished in battle by anybody else save thee, O scorcher of foes!...
Sanjaya said, After the Kuru army had been rallied, Shalva, the ruler of the Mlecchas, filled with rage, rushed against the large force of the Pandavas, riding on a gigantic elephant, with secretions issuing from the usual limbs, looking like a hill, swelling with pride, resembling Airavata himself, and capable of crushing large bands of foes.... Thou hast, with thy own eyes, O Sanjaya, seen the whole earth, with even her Mlecchas and nomad tribes, depend upon his grace!... Bhishma said, I shall recite to thee an old story whose incidents occurred in the country, O monarch, of the Mlecchas that lies to the north.
KASI IS A SON OF KAVI. BHARATA MARRIED SUNANDA THE DAUGHTER OF SARVASENA KING OF KASI THEY HAD SON BHUMANYU. KASI RULES IN VARANASI. VABHRU KING OF KASI OBTAINS KRISHNA AS HIS BROTHER SO GREAT IS THIS KRISHNA. RAMA THE FOREMOST OF THE BHRIGUS RACE TELLS DAUGHTER OF KASI BHISHMA WILL BOW TO HER AT HIS COMMAND. AMVA THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF KASI BUILDS A PYRE FIRE AND ENTERS IT FOR BHISMAS DESTRUCTION. AMVA WAS, O BULL OF BHARATAS RACE, BORN IN DRUPADAS LINE AS SIKHANDIN. SACRED SPOT TO VISWESWARA KASI IS THE OCEAN OF MILK...
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And Bharata married Sunanda, the daughter of Sarvasena, the king of Kasi, and begat upon her the son named Bhumanyu.... Kuru prince, endued with great energy, thus addressing the assembled monarchs and the king of Kasi, took upon his car those maidens.... Of immeasurable prowess in battle, the son of the ocean-going Ganga, having slain numberless foes in battle without a scratch on his own person, brought the daughters of the king of Kasi unto the Kurus as tenderly if they were his daughters-in-law, or younger sisters, or daughters....
And beholding the restoration of the extinct line of Santanu, the saying became current in all countries that among mothers of heroes, the daughters of the king of Kasi were the first; that among countries Kurujangala was the first; that among virtuous men, Vidura was the first; that among cities Hastinapura was the first....
Subjugating the Madras, the Kurus along with the Somakas, and the people of Chedi, Kasi and Karusha, he will maintain the prosperity of the Kurus....
And, O bull of the Bharata race, endued with great energy that monarch married two twin daughters of the king of Kasi, both endued with the wealth of beauty.... Krishna continued, O thou foremost of the Bharata race, the handsome daughters of the king of Kasi, having obtained the child, soon drenched it with their lacteal streams....
And, O exalted of men, the virtuous and truthful king of Kasi and Karusha was called a mad dog for having renounced his territories and riches!...
Vabhru, the king of Kasi, having obtained Krishna, that fructifier of wishes, as his brother, and upon whom Krishna showers all the blessings of life, as the clouds upon all earthly creatures, when the hot season is over, hath attained the highest prosperity, O sire, so great is this Krishna!...
The lord of Kasi, that mighty car-warrior who ruleth in Varanasi hath become an ally of theirs; with him the Pandavas will fight against you....
And the valiant Chekitana and Dhrishtaketu, the ruler of the Chedis, and Drupada and the king of Kasi and that mighty car-warrior Sikhandin, and Dhrishtadyumna, and Virata with his sons, and the princes of Kekaya also, all these Kshatriyas followed that bull of the Kshatriya race to honour him....
Bhishma said, Then, O chief of the Bharatas, approaching my mother, that daughter of the Dasa clan, and saluting that parent of heroes, I said these words, Having vanquished all the kings, these daughters of the ruler of Kasi, having beauty alone for their dowry, have been abducted by me for the sake of Vichitravirya,...When next, with Satyavati's acquiescence, the nuptials approached, the eldest daughter of the ruler of Kasi said these words in great bashfulness, O Bhishma, thou art conversant with morality, and art well-versed in all our scriptures!... Although she spoke in this strain, Salwa, however, O chief of the Bharatas, rejected that daughter of the ruler of Kasi, like a snake casting off his slough.... Then the eldest daughter of the ruler of Kasi, filled with anger, and her eyes bathed in tears, said these words with a voice choked with tears and grief, Cast off, O king, by thee, whithersoever I may go, the righteous will be my protectors, for truth is indestructible'...
And after their discourse was over, the sage Hotravahana opportunately said in a sweet voice these words of grave import unto that foremost one of Bhrigu's race, viz, Rama of mighty strength, O Rama, this is my daughter's daughter, O lord, being the daughter of the king of Kasi.... Rama said, O daughter of Kasi, say but the word and Bhishma, however, deserving of reverence from thee, will, at my word, take up thy feet on his head'... Then Rama answered me with eyes red in anger, Thou knowest me, O Bhishma, to be thy preceptor, and yet, O Kauravya, thou acceptest not, for pleasing me, this daughter of the ruler of Kasi!... Thus addressed by her, I saluted the goddess reverentially and replied unto her with joined hands, giving her, O chief of the Bharatas, an account of all that had transpired in that self-choice of the daughter of Kasi.... I also gave her a history of all the past acts of the eldest daughter of Kasi.... And seeing me afflicted and pierced with Rama's weapons and borne away drooping and in a swoon, all the followers of Rama, including Akritavrana and others and the princess of Kasi, filled with joy, O Bharata, began to shout aloud!... Then all those ascetics together with the princess of Kasi, quietly proceeded, O son of Kuru's race, with great anxiety towards Rama....
Upon this, that faultless maiden of the fairest complexion, the eldest daughter of the king of Kasi, procuring wood from that forest in the very sight of those great Rishis, made a large funeral pyre on the banks of the Yamuna, and having set fire to it herself, entered that blazing fire, O great king, with a heart burning with wrath, and uttering, O king, the words, I do so for Bhishma's destruction... And it was the eldest daughter of the ruler of Kasi, celebrated by the name of Amva, who was, O bull of Bharata's race, born in Drupada's line as Sikhandin....
Vibhu, the son of the ruler of Kasi,...
The names of the eight sons of Kavi are Kavi, Kavya, Dhrishnu, Usanas endued with great intelligence, Bhrigu, Viraja, Kasi, and Ugra conversant with every duty....
the spot sacred to Visweswara or Mahadeva, viz, Kasi, that lake of crystal water, Kurukshetra full of many sacred waters, the foremost of oceans viz, the ocean of milk,...
KAVI IS FATHER OF KASI. KAVI WAS AGREEABLE TO ASURAS AND DISAGREEABLE TO THE GODS. KAVI SPRANG FROM A HEAP OF CHARCOALS CAME TO BE CALLED OFFSPRING OF AGNI AND WAS CALLED SON OF BRAHMAN. BHRIGU, ANGIRAS, AND KAVI ARE CALLED PRAJAPATIS OF MANY RACES AND TRIBES. THE SONS OF KAVI ARE KNOWN AS VARUNAS. KASI IS ONE OF THE EIGHT SONS OF KAVI. KAVI IS A VISWEDEVA AMONG OTHERS SUCH AS ADITYA, DAKSHA, ISWARA, SURYASAVITRA, ETC... KAVI OF BHRIGUS RACE DISCOURSE TO VALI CHIEF OF THE ASURAS...
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It hath also been commanded by Sukra himself, the son of Kavi, that, that son of mine who should obey me will become king after me and bring the whole Earth under his sway.... Why was the celestial Rishi, the high-souled Usanas, called also Kavi engaged in doing what was agreeable to the Asuras and disagreeable to the deities?... The third sprang from a heap of extinguished charcoals and he came to be called by the name of Kavi... Conversant with the truth in respect of everything, the Grandsire then took Kavi as his own son.... Endued with every prosperity, Angiras came to be called the offspring of Agni, and the celebrated Kavi came to be known as the child of Brahman himself.... Verily, these three, viz, Bhrigu and Angiras and Kavi, regarded as Prajapati, are the progenitors of many races and tribes.... The sons of Kavi who was appropriated by Brahman himself are also known as Varunas....
The names of the eight sons of Kavi are Kavi, Kavya, Dhrishnu, Usanas endued with great intelligence, Bhrigu, Viraja, Kasi, and Ugra conversant with every duty.... These are the eight sons of Kavi.... Thus, O chief of Bhrigu's race, hath the whole world been peopled with the progeny of Angiras, and Kavi and Bhrigu.... The puissant and supreme Lord Mahadeva in the form of Varuna which he had assumed for his sacrifice had first, O learned Brahmana, adopted both Kavi and Angiras.... The Grandsire Brahman was, in olden days, gratified by all the deities who said unto him, Let these lords of the universe referring to Bhrigu and Angiras and Kavi and their descendants rescue us all....
Others also are numbered amongst them, viz, Somapa, Suryasavitra, Dattatman, Pundariyaka, Ushninabha, Nabhoda, Viswayu, Dipti, Chamuhara, Suresa, Vyomari, Sankara Bhava, Isa, Kartri, Kriti, Daksha, Bhuvana, Divya, Karmakrit, Ganita Panchavirya, Aditya, Rasmimat, Saptakrit, Somavachas, Viswakrit, Kavi, Anugoptri, Sugoptri, Naptri, and Iswara, these highly blessed ones are numbered as the Viswedevas.... There were Sakra and Angiras and Kavi of great learning and Agastya and Narada and Pravata; and Bhrigu and Vasishtha and Kasyapa and Gautama and Viswamitra and Jamadagni, O king!... Kavi said, Let him who has stolen thy stalks he guilty of striking a cow with his foot.... Even thus did the learned Kavi of Bhrigu's race discourse to Vali, the chief of the Asuras.
VIBHU IS A SON OF KASI...
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The fire called Adbhuta had a wife of the name of Priya, and Vibhu was the eldest of his sons by her....
And he was followed by Sauchitti, who steadily adhered to truth and was invincible in battle, and Srenimat, and Vasudeva and Vibhu, the son of the ruler of Kasi, with twenty thousand cars, and hundred million steeds of high mettle, each bearing scores of bells on its limbs, and twenty thousand smiting elephants with tusks as long as plough-shares, all of good breed and divided temples and all resembling moving masses of clouds.... Him followed Satyadhriti, and Sauchitti irresistible in battle, and Srenimat, and Vasudana, and Vibhu, the son of the ruler of the Kasis....