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visited by sultry tempestuous tornadoes, witli the result that almost all the trees were uprooted and burnt down, and out of the scorched and fallen debris, there sprang up a damsel; and at then presented himself before the goals to whom he offered the hand of this maiden in marriage. This maiden in course of tine became the mother of .
This tricd many ways to propagate his species but to no avail. Eventually he married the daughter of at a rala and had, through her, sixty daughters; ten of these were given in marriage to yÅ. They were maal, 99, 5 , 5T, H. Hitat. 6 , TT, 21 and fasal. The second in the list, viz. 49, gave birth to cight ags. They are ; , , BA, 317, m , a, sea and 49 (sometimncs 37 is substituted by 9). Fare the last of these is was the father of fag in. (53rd 271-feragi, augar).
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fasa -Another Genealogy The second 59912 of far gives a genealogy of fata which is quite distinct from the one given above. Here fas 49 is described as the son of aa and husband of Indra's daughter. It is difficult to reconcile this description with the one in whiclı he is regarded as the son of SHAFT. The tà a suf of haar belonged to a very distant epoch in history. sai was the foremost invader and settier in India and the fashi referred to in raar was the architect who helped his (Brahma's) colonists. This विश्वकर्मा was born in ब्रह्मल in मार्गशीर्ष in सत्ययुग; not so the other विश्वकर्मा, son of Ja97 who was born on the eleventh day (the fourteenth day अपराजितपुर छा) of the bright half of कार्तिक. He is also known as त्वष्टा, भद्रशिल्ब, भदभद्र etc. विश्वकर्मा haiason named विश्वरूपाच ये, चाक्षुमुने-the sixth मनु who descended from विश्वकर्मा became the head of the चाक्षुषवंश. This चाक्षुषमुनि had five sons पुरु, पुरुष, सुशुम्न, विश्व and साध्य and his descendants promulgated the flat and atazila.
Those interested in this subject may read the grrots, including fara agr. This latter grot, though a recent compilation embodies the traditional beliefs as handed down to posterity from generation to generation,
Our lasafni - 541975-27 --need not be confounded with a third farthef who is referred to in azgiau in connection with the Imperial Coronation in ancient India; 10 such emperors (rear facras) are enum rated from जनमेजय son of परीक्षित of the Pandavas down to भरत, In this list, the sixth in number, stands fara baf son of y1964, the officiating priest in this महाभिषेक bcing काश्यर, The names विश्वकर्मन and
795 are suggestiye, but in the absence of any life history of this fara 67, it is no use connecting him with the present subject; for aught we know, farat and his son, may have been patrons of alegria, and through them, the principles of the science and art may have been propagated. Chronologically lowever, it may be observed that they flourished long after the fara ti, son of 941995. The ags were mostly workers in different branches of art, as has been described under gg. AT
