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Book Iv. Chapter Xviii

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"The Vishnu Purana", translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840],

p. 444

Chap. Xviii.

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

Anu 1,
the fourth son of Yayti, had three sons, Sabhnara, Chkshusha, and Paramekshu 2. The son of the first was Klnara 3; his son was rinjaya; his son was Puranjaya; his son was Janamejaya; his son was Mahmani 4; his son was Mahmanas, who had two sons, Unara and Titikshu. Unara had five sons, ivi, Trina 5, Gara 6, Krimi, Drvan 7. ivi had four sons, Vrishadarbha, Suvra, Kaikeya, and Madra 8. Titikshu had one son, Ushadratha 9; his son was Hema 10; his son was Sutapas; his son was Bali, on whose wife five sons were begotten by Drghatamas, or Anga, Banga, Kalinga, Suhma, and Pundra 11; and their descendants, and the five countries they inhabited, were known by the same names 12.

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The son of Anga was Pra 13; his son was Divaratha; his son was Dharmaratha 14; his son was Chitraratha; his son was Romapda 15, also called Daaratha, to whom, being childless, Daaratha, the son of Aja, gave his daughter nt to be adopted 16. After this, Romapda had a son named Chaturanga; his son was Prithulksha; his son was Champa, who founded the city of Champ 17. The son of Champa was Haryyanga; his son was Bhadraratha, who had two sons, Vrihatkarman and Vrihadratha. The son of the first was Vrihadbhnu 18; his son was Vrihanmanas; his son was Jayadratha, who, by a wife who was the daughter of a Kshatriya father and Brahmani mother, had a son named Vijaya 19;

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his son was Dhriti; his son was Dhritavrata; his son was Satyakarman; his son was Adhiratha 20, who found Karna in a basket on the banks of the Ganges, where he had been exposed by his mother, Pritha. The son of Karna was Vrishasena 21. These were the Anga kings. You shall next hear who were the descendants of Puru.

Footnotes

444:1
By some unaccountable caprice the Brhma P. and Hari V., unsupported by any other authority, here substitute for Anu the name of Kaksheyu, a descendant of Puru, and transfer the whole series of his posterity to the house of Puru.

444:2
Paksha and Parapaksha: Vyu. Parameshu: Matsya. Paroksha: Bhgavata.

444:3
Klnala: Vyu. Kolhala: Matsya.

444:4
Mahla: Agni. Mahla: Bhgav.

444:5
Nriga: Agni. Vana: Bhgavata.

444:6
Nava: Matsya. ama: Bhgavata.

444:7
Vrata: Agni. Suvrata: Matsya. Daksha: Bhgavata. According to the Brhma P. and Hari V. the five sons of Unara were the ancestors of different tribes. ivi was the progenitor of the aivas; Nriga of the Yaudheyas; Nava of the Navarshtras; Vrata of the mbashthas; and Krimi founded the city Krimil.

444:8
Bhadra and Bhadraka: Matsya, Agni. These sons of ivi give name to different provinces and tribes in the west and north-west of India.

444:9
Rushadratha: Agni. Tushadratha: Matsya.

444:10
Phena: Agni. Sena: Matsya.

444:11
Odra, or in some copies Andhra: Bhgavata.

444:12
See p. 185. n. 3; p. 188. n. 46, 49, 50; and p. 190. n. 73. Of Suhma it may be remarked, that it is specified in the Siddhnta Kaumud as an example of Panin's rule; 17.3.24; by which Nagara compounded with names of countries in the east becomes Ngara, as Sauhmangara, 'produced, &c. in a city of Suhma.' The descendants of Anu, according to the Mahbhrata were all Mlechchhas. The last named work, as well as the Vyu and Matsya Purnas, have an absurd story of the circumstances of the birth of Drghatamas, who was the son of Ujsi or Utathya, the elder brother of Vrihaspati by Mamat, and of his begetting Anga p. 445 and the rest. They agree in assigning descendants of all four castes to them; the Vyu stating that Bali had ### and the Matsya ascribing it to a boon given by Brahm to Bali: 'Do thou establish the four perpetual castes.' Of these, the Brahmans are known as Bleyas: ###. The Matsya calls Bali, the son of Virochana, and 'existing for a whole Kalpa;' identifying him therefore, only in a different period and form, with the Bali of the Vmana Avatra.

445:13
Anpna: Vyu. Khanpna: Bhgavata. Adhivhana: Agni. Dadhivahana: Matsya.

445:14
This prince is said in the Vyu to have drank the Soma juice along with Indra.

445:15
The Matsya and Agni insert a Satyaratha.

445:16
This is noticed in the Rmyana, in the story of the hermit Rishyaringa, to whom nt was given in marriage. Her adoptive father is called in the Rmyana, as the is in the Agni and Matsya, Lomapda: the meaning is the same, 'hairy foot.' Rmyana, IX. X. See also Prelude to the Uttara Rma Cheritra, Hindu Theatre, I. 289.

445:17
The Bhgavata differs here from all the other authorities in omitting Champa, the founder of Champapur, a city of which traces still remain in the vicinity of Bhagalpur, having inserted him previously amongst the descendants of Ikshwku (see p. 373. n. 12). Champ is every where recognised as the capital of Anga, and the translators of the Rmyana were very wide of the truth, when they conjectured that it might be Angwa or Ava.

445:18
Vrihaddarbha: Brhma. The Bhgavata omits the two successors of Champa, and makes Vrihadratha, Vrihatkarman, and Vrihadbhnu, sons of Prithulksha.

445:19
The Vyu, Matsya, and Hari V. make Vijaya the brother of Jayadratha. The Bhgavata agrees with our text. The mother of Vijaya from her origin was of the Sta caste, the genealogist and charioteer. Manu, X. 47. Her son was of the same caste, children taking the caste of the mother: consequently the descendants of Vijaya, kings of Anga, were Stas; and this explains the contemptuous application of the term Sta to Karna, the half brother of the Pndus; for he, as p. 446 will presently be mentioned, was adopted into the Anga family, and succeeded to the crown.

446:20
Some variety prevails in the series of princes here, but this arises from not distinguishing the collateral lines, the descendants of Jayadratha from those of Vijaya. The Vyu and Matsya give the latter as in our text, but they agree also with the Agni and Brhma in the successors of Jayadratha, as Dridharatha or Vrihadratha, and Janamejaya or Viwajit.

446:21 Srasena: Vyu. Vikarna: Brhma.

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