Markandeya Purana by Manmatha Nath Dutt

Author:Manmatha Nath Dutt
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER - 53

KRAUSTUKI said: - This Manwantara associated with the Swayambhuba Manu which has been described by thee, I desire to hear in detail everything about it, Oh thou possessor of the six miraculous powers or Bhagas, tell me all about it. Tell me the measure of that Manwantara, as also of the gods, and the godly Rishis, and of those that were the lords of earth, and the king of the gods - the Indra - tell me all these exactly as they were. (1-2) MARKANDEYA said: - The measure of Manwantaras is made by the figure seventy one; hear from me the measure of a Manwantara calculated by human standards. (3) Thirty crores, multiplied twenty thousand times, and sixty seven nijutas (of years) are the measurement of a Manwantara, and not more. (4) Measured according to the standards of the gods it is said to consist of eight-hundred thousand and another fifty-two thousand (years). (5) The first was the Swayambhuba Manwantara, next the Swaruchisha, then Auttama, them Tamasa, then Raibata, then Chakshusha. These six Manus are gone. The present is the Manwantara of the Bibashwata Manu. The coming ones will be the five Sabarni Manwantaras1, the Rauchya, Bhautya. (6-7) I shall tell you in detail who are the gods, at the coming on of each of these Manwantaras and Rishis and Yakshas, and the Indras and the Pitris. (8) Oh Brahmana, the birth and the duration, and the progeny of these Manus, as also they who were their wives, and who also were their high-souled sons, - hear all this from me. (9) Of the Swayambhuba Manu there were ten sons all like himself; by whom this world with all the seven islands and mountains are inhabited. (10) They entered into this world, each one into a separate continent, consisting of oceans and mines. In the Tretayuga, at the time of the first or Swayambhuba Mawantara, was the earth thus occupied by the sons and grandsons of Priyabrata, the son of Swayambhuba Manu. Of the mighty Priyabrata was a daughter born unto Prajabati. (11-12) That girl, endued with the six great virtues of kindness &c., bore two daughters and ten sons to the lord of creatures Kardama, - these two daughters bore princes in their womb. (13) Their ten brothers were mighty personages, even like unto the lord of creatures in prowess. They are Agnidhra, Medhatithi, Bapushman, Jyotishman, Dyutiman, Bhabya, Sabana, - these seven. Priyabrata anointed them in due form as kings of the seven lands. Hear from me also all about these lands. The father made Agnidhra, - king in Jambudwipa. (14-16) By him was Medhatithi made the lord of Plakshadwipa, in Shalmali Bapushmanta, and in Kushabhaya Joytishmanta, in the Kraunchadvipa Dyotimanta, and of Shakahbaya Bhabya was made the lord. While he made his son Sabana the lord of Pushkara. (17-18) The two sons of the lord of Pushkara were Mahabita and Dhataki. Having divided Pushkara into two parts, these two were installed there. (19) Of Bhabya the sons were seven, hear from me of them, by their names.

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