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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1889.
ABSTRACT OF CONTENTS.
Desirous of creating the three worlds, there became manifest the divine (god) Ananta (Vishnu) (line 3). From the water-lily (that grew from his nevel, there sprang (the god) Brahman (1.4), reciting the Vedas with his four mouths. From him there was born Atri (1. 5), the lord of sages. The son of Atri was Sasanks (the Moon) (1.9).3 From him was born Budha (1. 10). His son was Pururavas. From him was born Åyus (1. 11). His son was king Nahusha (1. 12). From him there was born Yayati (1. 14). From him, king Turvasu (1. 15); "he came to maturity on the breast of his mother) through the power of the ancient preceptor of the gods, his maternal grandfather ('Sakra)."4 Being without sons, and being excessively distressed for a long time (on that account) (1. 16), he (Turvasu), the best of kings, practising self-restraint, propitiated (the river) Gange, the bestower of boons, who is worthy to be propitiated, and obtained a son, the unconquerable Gangeyu (1. 17);45 and, from that time forth, the succession of his descendants has been victorious in the world, under the name of the Ganganvaya (1. 18).
The son of this person was Virochana (1. 19). He begat Samvedya (1. 21), the glory of the Gangånvaya.. From him there was born Samvedin (1. 22).46 He became possessed of a son through the birth of Dattasona (1. 23). His dear Son was Soma (1. 25). From him there was born Ampudatta (1. 26). From him, Sauranga. From him, Chitrambara (1. 27), who alone, in the whole circuit of the earth, was worthy to be spoken of by the title of 'king.' His son was Saradhvaja. His son was he who had the appellation of Dharma (P) (1. 28).7 And his son was Parikshit (1. 30). He obtained a glorions son, Jayashna (I.). And his son again was named Jayasons (II.) (1. 31). He begat Jitavirya (1. 32). And be, king Vrishadhvaja (1. 33). His son was Pragalbha (1. 34). His son was Kolahala (1. 88), who built the city named KOLAhalapura (1. 37), in the great Gangavadi vishaya, and made a temple of the god Hari. And his son was Virochana (1. 40).
When there had gone by in that city eighty kings, who enjoyed the city of Kolahalspurt (1. 40), in his lineage there was born king Virasimha (1. 41). His sons were five in number; Kamarnava (I.), Danarnava, GunArnava (I.), Marasimhs, and Vajrahasta (I.) (1. 42). Then Kamarnava (I.) gave over his own territory to his paternal uncle (1. 43), and, with his brothers, set out to conquer the earth, and came to the mountain Mahendra (1. 44). Having there worshipped the god Gokarnasvâmin (1. 45), through his favour he obtained the excellent crest of a bull (usishabha-láfichhana); and then, decorated with all the insignia of universal sovereignty, having descended from the summit of the mountain Mahendra (1. 47), and being accompanied, like Yudhishthira, by his four younger brothers Kamarnava (I.) conquered (king) BalAditys, who had grown sick of war (1. 48), and took possession of the Kalinga countries (1. 49). And his capital (rájadhani) was the city named Jantavura (1. 49), which quite surpassed the city of the god) Surendra. Having decorated his younger brother Danarnava with the necklace (kanthika) (of royalty, as a token that he should succeed him in that kingdom) (1.50), to Gunarnava (I.) he gave the Ambavadi
Accordingly, these Gangas were comprised in the Vishņuvams or lineage of Vishnu. * And thus they belonged also to the Somavama or Lunar Race.
I have not succeeded in obtaining an explanation of this verse. The story of Yayati is given in the Vishnu Purina, book iv. chap. 10; and may be briefly stated thus:By his wife Devayant, the danghter of Bakra, he had two BODA, Yadu and Turvaku; and by his other wife Sarmishth, the daughter of Vishaparvan, three sons, Druhya, Ana, and Paru. Being cursed by Bukrs, in connection with his marriage to the second wife, he became old and infirt before his time. But subsequently, appearing his first fatber-in-law, Bukra, he obtained permission to transfer his decrepitude for a thousand years to anyone who would bear it in his place. With the exception of Paru, all his sons refused, and wore oursed by him in consequenoe. Paro, however, relieved his father of the infliction, and in return, whon the time had expired, was made by his father his principal successor in the sovereignty ; his brothers being appointed viceroys under him. The preceptor of the gods is properly Brihaspati. But the epithet neems here to be applied to Bukra, the preceptor of the demons.
- Here the descent branches off from the Parkņio genealogy. According to the Vish-Purdna, book iv. chap. 16, Turvau's son WA Vahni; his was GobhAnd ; and so on and no reference is made to the circumstances mentioned in the present verse. - See note 14 above. See note 17 above.
See note 21 above.
