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8. His son (was) Purukutea, a universal mouarch; of him (was) Trasaddasyu the second; of him was born Anaranya.
9-10. Of him. Haryasva; of him Arana; of him king Tribandhann; of him Satyavrata, his other name (being) Trisapka; of him Harischandra; of him. Rohita; and of him Harita; of him Bappa; of him Sudeva, of him 'Vijaya and of him Bharuka. *
11-12. Of him Vrika; of him Bahuka; his son (was) Sagar, and he (was) a universal monarch; to him were borne by Su-mati sixty thousand illustrious sons, the diggers of Sagara ; of Sagra (was), by another wife Keini, Asamanjas. 13-15. (was) Anfumat; of him Dilipa; of him was born Bhagirath; of him Sruta of him Niblia; of him Sindhu-dvipa; his son (was) Ayutyus; of him was in Rituparna; his son (was) Sarva-kama; of him (was) Sudása; of him (his son) king Mitrasaha, whose other name was Kalmasha-pâdat; and of him (was) Asmakal: of him Mülaks; of him Dadaratha; of him davida.
16. Of him was born Visvasalia; of him Khajvingn, a uneversal monarch; of him Dirgha-bahu; of him Dilips; of him Raghu; and of him Ajn.
17-19. Of him was Dasaratha; (to him) was born, from Kausalya, a son, Sri Ramachandra, from Kaikey!, Bharata, devoted to Rama, and from Sumitra, Lakshmays and Satrughna; to Rama, Lava and Kusa were born from Sità; to Kusa was born Atithika from Komudavati; of him (was) Nishadha; of him Nala; of him Nabhas; of him Pundarika; of him was Kshema-dhanvan.
Also written Kuruka or Ruruka.
†, meaning "Ocean," was the name given by Sagata to the chasm which his sons had dug while endeavouring to recover the horse of the Asva-medha carried off by Kapila to l'atâla or the infernal regions.
"The indignant sage Vasishtha once cursed the king that his appetite should be excited only by human flesh for 12 years. The angry king took water in his hands to pronounce, in his turn, a curso upon Vasishtha, but was dissuaded from his purpose by his wife, Madayanti. Unwilling to cast the water on the ground, lest it should wither up the grain, and equally reluctant to throw it up into the air, lest it should blast the clouds and dry up thoir contents, he threw it upon his own feet, and they were so scalded by it that they became black and white and so gained for him the name of Kalmasha-páda, spotted feet: Every day for twelve years, at the sixth watch of the day, he gave way to his cannibal appetite, and devoured multitudes of men'. On one occasion he devoured a Brahman in the midst of his cannibal happiness, and the Brahman's wife passed upon him a curse that he should die whenever he associated with his wife. At the expiration of Vasishtha's curse, the king returned home; but mindful of the Brahmani's imprecation, he abstained from conjugal intercourse. By the interposition of Vasishtho, his wife, Madayanti, became pregnant, and bore a child in her womb for seven years, when she performed the Caesarean operation with a Pharp stone, and a child came forth who was called Asmaka from aśmun, a stone,' "-Dowson's Hindu Mythology,
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