CHAPTER XIV.

Of occasional Śráddhas or obsequial ceremonies: when most efficacious, and at what places.

CHAPTER XV.

What Brahmans are to be entertained at Śráddhas. Different prayers to be recited. Offerings of food to be presented to deceased ancestors.

CHAPTER XVI.

Things proper to be offered, as food, to deceased ancestors: prohibited things. Circumstances vitiating a Śráddha: how to be avoided. Song of the Pitris or progenitors, heard by Ikshwáku.

CHAPTER XVII.

Of heretics, or those who reject the authority of the Vedas: their origin, as described by Vasishtha to Bhishma: the gods, defeated by the Daityas, praise Vishnu: an illusory being, or Buddha, produced from his body.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Buddha goes to the earth and teaches the Daityas to contemn the Vedas: his sceptical doctrines: his prohibition of animal sacrifices. Meaning of the term Bauddha. Jainas and Bauddhas: their tenets. The Daityas lose their power, and are overcome by the gods. Meaning of the term Nagna. Consequences of neglect of duty. Story of Satadhanu and his wife Śaivyá. Communion with heretics to be shunned.

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I.

Dynasties of kings. Origin of the solar dynasty from Brahmá. Sons of the Manu Vaivaswata. Transformations of Ilá or Sudyumna. Descendants of the sons of Vaivas wat: those of Nedishta. Greatness of Marutta. Kings of Vaišálí. Descendants of Saryáti. Legend of Raivata: his daughter Revati

married to Balarama.

CHAPTER II.

Dispersion of Revata's descendants: those of Dhrishta: those of Nabhága. Birth of Ikshwáku, the son of Vaivaswata: his sons. Line of Vikukshi. Legend of Kakutstha; of Dhundhumára; of Yuvanáśwa; of Mándhátŕi: his daughters married to Saubhari.

CHAPTER III.

Saubhari and his wives adopt an ascetic life. Descendants of Mándhátri. Legend of Narmadá and Purukutsa. Legend of Trisanku. Báhu driven from his kingdom by the Haihayas and Tálajanghas. Birth of Sagara: he conquers the barbarians, imposes upon them distinguishing usages, and excludes them from offerings to fire and the study of the Vedas.

CHAPTER IV.

The progeny of Sagara: their wickedness: he performs an Aswamedha: the horse stolen by Kapila: found by Sagara's sons, who are all destroyed by the sage: the horse recovered by Amśumat: his descendants. Legend of Mitrasaha or Kalmáshapáda, the son of Sudása. Legend of Khatwánga. Birth of Ráma and the other sons of Dasaratha. Epitome of the history of Ráma: his descendants, and those of his brothers. Line of Kuśa. Brihadbala, the last, killed in the Great War.

CHAPTER V.

Kings of Mithila. Legend of Nimi, the son of Ikshwáku. Birth of Janaka. Sacrifice of Síradhwaja. Origin of Sítá. Descendants of Kuśadhwaja. Krita the last of the Maithila princes.

CHAPTER VI.

Kings of the lunar dynasty. Origin of Soma or the moon: he carries off Tárá, the wife of Brihaspati: war between the gods and Asuras, in consequence: appeased by Brahmá. Birth of Budha: married to Ilá, daughter of Vaivaswata. Legend of his son Purúravas and the nymph Urvasí: the former institutes offerings with fire: ascends to the sphere of the Gandharvas.

CHAPTER VII.

Sons of Purúravas. Descendants of Amávasu.

Indra born as Gádhi. Legend of Richíka and Satyavati. Birth of Jamadagni and Viswamitra. Parasuráma the son of the former. (Legend of Parasuráma.) Sunahsepha and others, the sons of Viśwámitra, forming the Kausika race.

CHAPTER VIII.

Sons of Áyus. Line of Kshatravŕiddha, or kings of Káśí. Former birth of Dhanwantari. Various names of Pratardana. Greatness of Alarka.

CHAPTER IX.

Descendants of Raji, son of Áyus: Indra resigns his throne to him: claimed, after his death, by his sons, who apostatize from the religion of the Vedas, and are destroyed by Indra. Descendants of Pratikshatra, son of Kshatravŕiddha.

CHAPTER X.

The sons of Nahusha. The sons of Yayati: he is cursed by Śukra: wishes his sons to exchange their vigour for his infirmities. Púru alone consents. Yayáti restores him his youth: divides the earth amongst his sons, under the supremacy of Púru.

CHAPTER XI.

The Yadava race, or descendants of Yadu. Kárttavírya obtains a boon from Dattatreya: takes Rávana prisoner: is killed by Paraśuráma: his descendants.

CHAPTER XII.

Descendants of Kroshtri. Jyámagha's connubial affection for his wife Śaivyá: their descendants kings of Vidarbha and Chedi.

CHAPTER XIII.

Sons of Sattwata. Bhoja princes of Mŕittikávatí. Súrya the friend of Satrájit appears to him in a bodily form: gives him the Syamantaka gem: its brilliance and marvellous properties.

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Satrájit gives it to Prasena, who is killed by a lion: the lion killed by the bear Jámbavat. Krishna, suspected of killing Prasena, goes to look for him in the forests: traces the bear to his cave: fights with him for the jewel: the contest prolonged: supposed, by his companions, to be slain: he overthrows Jámbavat and marries his daughter Jámbavati: returns, with her and the jewel, to Dwáraká: restores the jewel to Satrájit and marries his daughter Satyabhámá. Satrájit murdered by Śatadhanwan: avenged by Krishna. Quarrel between Krishna and Balaráma. Akrúra possessed of the jewel: leaves Dwáraká. Public calamities. Meeting of the Yádavas. Story of Akrúra's birth: he is invited to return: accused, by Krishna, of having the Syamantaka jewel: produces it in full assembly: it remains in his charge: Krishna acquitted of having purloined it.

CHAPTER XIV.

Descendants of Śini, of Anamitra, of Śwaphalka and Chitraka, of Andhaka. The children of Devaka and Ugrasena. The descendants of Bhajamána. Children of Súra: his son Vasudeva: his daughter Pritha married to Páńdu: her children, Yudhishthira and his brothers; also Karna, by Áditya. The sons of Páńdu by Mádrí. Husbands and children of Śúra's other daughters. Previous births of Siśupála.

CHAPTER XV.

Explanation of the reason why Śiśupála, in his previous births as Hiranyakasipu and Rávana, was not identified with Vishnu, on being slain by him, and was so identified, when killed as Siśupála. The wives of Vasudeva: his children: Balaráma and Krishna his sons by Devakí: born, apparently, of Rohini and Yasoda. The wives and children of Krishna. Multitude of the descendants of Yadu.

CHAPTER XVI.

Descendants of Turvasu.

CHAPTER XVII.

Descendants of Druhyu.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Descendants of Anu. Countries and towns named after some of them, as Anga, Banga, and others.

CHAPTER XIX.

Descendants of Púru. Birth of Bharata, the son of Dushyanta: his sons killed: adopts Bharadwaja or Vitatha. Hastin, founder of Hastinapura. Sons of Ajamídha, and the races derived from them, as Pánchálas, &c. Kripa and Kripí found by Sántanu. Descendants of Riksha, the son of Ajamídha. Kurukshetra named from Kuru. Jarásandha and others, kings of Magadha.

CHAPTER XX.

Descendants of Kuru. Devápi abdicates the throne: assumed by Śántanu: he is confirmed by the Brahmans: Bhishma his son by Gangá: his other sons. Birth of Dhritarashtra, Páńdu, and Vidura. The hundred sons of Dhritarashtra. The five sons of Páńdu: married to Draupadí: their posterity. Parikshit, the grandson of Arjuna, the reigning king.

CHAPTER XXI.

Future kings. Descendants of Parikshit, ending with Kshemaka.

CHAPTER XXII.

Future kings of the family of Ikshwáku, ending with Sumitra.

CHAPTER XXIII.

Future kings of Magadhá, descendants of Brihadratha.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Future kings of Magadhá. Five princes of the line of Pradyota. Ten Saiśunágas. Nine Nandas. Ten Mauryas. Ten Śungas. Four Kańwas. Thirty Andhrabhŕityas. Kings of various tribes and castes, and periods of their rule. Ascendancy of barbarians. Different races in different regions. Period of universal iniquity and decay. Coming of Vishnu as Kalki. Destruction of the wicked, and restoration of the practices of the Vedas. End