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Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, the son of Divodāsa was Mitrāyu, and from Mitrāyu came four sons, named Cyavana, Sudāsa, Sahadeva and Somaka. Somaka was the father of Jantu.
Somaka had one hundred sons, of whom the youngest was Pṛṣata. From Pṛṣata was born King Drupada, who was opulent in all supremacy.
Tasya refers to Somaka. Of Somakas hundred sons, Jantu was the eldest and Pṛṣata was the youngest. From Pṛṣata was born Drupada
From Mahārāja Drupada, Draupadī was born. Mahārāja Drupada also had many sons, headed by Dhṛṣṭadyumna. From Dhṛṣṭadyumna came a son named Dhṛṣṭaketu. All these personalities are known as descendants of Bharmyāśva or as the dynasty of Pāñcāla.
parīkṣiḥ sudhanur jahnur niṣadhaś ca kuroḥ sutāḥ suhotro 'bhūt sudhanuṣaś cyavano 'tha tataḥ kṛtī
Another son of Ajamīòha was known as Ṛkṣa. From Ṛkṣa came a son named Saṁvaraṇa, and from Saṁvaraṇa through the womb of his wife, Tapatī, the daughter of the sun-god, came Kuru, the King of Kurukṣetra. Kuru had four sons--Parīkṣi, Sudhanu, Jahnu and Niṣadha. From Sudhanu, Suhotra was born, and from Suhotra, Cyavana. From Cyavana, Kṛtī was born.
The son of Kṛtī was Uparicara Vasu, and among his sons, headed by Bṛhadratha, were Kuśāmba, Matsya, Pratyagra and Cedipa. All the sons of Uparicara Vasu became rulers of the Cedi state.
The sons headed by Bṛhadratha are listed.
From Bṛhadratha, Kuśāgra was born; from Kuśāgra, Ṛṣabha; and from Ṛṣabha, Satyahita. The son of Satyahita was Puṣpavān, and the son of Puṣpavān was Jahu.
Through the womb of another wife, Bṛhadratha begot two halves of a son. The mother rejected them, but later a she-demon named Jarā playfully joined them and said, "Come to life, come to life!" Thus the son named Jarāsandha was born.
Jarā was a Rākṣasī.
From Jarāsandha came a son named Sahadeva; from Sahadeva, Somāpi; and from Somāpi, Śrutaśravā. The son of Kuru called Parīkṣi had no sons, but the son of Kuru called Jahnu had a son named Suratha.
From Somāpi came Śrutaśravā. Parīkṣi was Kurus son. Suratha was the son of Jahnu (jāhanvaḥ).
From Suratha came a son named Vidūratha, from whom Sārvabhauma was born. From Sārvabhauma came Jayasena; from Jayasena, Rādhika; and from Rādhika, Ayutāyu.
From Rādhika was born Ayutāyu.
From Ayutāyu came a son named Akrodhana, and his son was Devātithi. The son of Devātithi was Ṛkṣa, the son of Ṛkṣa was Dilīpa, and the son of Dilīpa was Pratīpa.
abhavac chāntanū rājā prāḍ mahābhiṣa-saṁjñitaḥ yaṁ yaṁ karābhyāṁ spṛśati jīrṇaṁ yauvanam eti saḥ
The sons of Pratīpa were Devāpi, Śāntanu and Bāhlīka. Devāpi left the kingdom of his father and went to the forest, and therefore Śāntanu became the king. Śāntanu, who in his previous birth was known as Mahābhiṣa, had the ability to transform anyones old age to youth simply by touching that person with his hands.
In his previous birth Śāntanu was Mahābhiṣa. By touching an old person, that person because youthful.
śāntanur brāhmaṇair uktaḥ parivettāyam agrabhuk rājyaṁ dehy agrajāyāśu pura-rāṣṭra-vivṛddhaye
Because the King was able to make everyone peaceful by the touch of his hand, his name was Śāntanu. Once, when there was no rainfall in the kingdom for twelve years, the brāhmaṇas said, "You are faulty for enjoying the property of your elder brother. For the prosperity of your kingdom and home, you should return the kingdom to him."
Indra (vibhuḥ) did not shower rain. Smṛti says dārāgnihotra-saṁyogaṁ kurute yo graje sthite parivettā sa vijñeyaḥ parivittis tu pūrvajaḥ: the person who gets married and performs sacrifice while the older brother is present is called parivettā and the elder brother is called parivitti. Though your elder brother lives (unmarried), you have married and enjoyed first and have enjoyed the kingdom. You are a parivettā. Because of this fault Indra does now shower rain. Therefore return the kingdom to him.
veda-vādātivādān vai tadā devo vavarṣa ha devāpir yogam āsthāya kalāpa-grāmam āśritaḥ
When the brāhmaṇas said this, Mahārāja Śāntanu requested his elder brother Devāpi to take charge of the kingdom. Previously, however, Śāntanu's minister Aśvavāra had instigated some brāhmaṇas to induce Devāpi to transgress the injunctions of the Vedas. He thus blasphemed the Vedic principles. Under the circumstances, Śāntanu again became the king, and Indra, being pleased, showered rains. Devāpi later took to the path of mystic yoga in a village named Kalāpagrāma.
He requested Devāpi to rule the kingdom. Devāpi made statements criticizing the Vedas. The cause is explained. Before Śāntanu made his request, Śāntanus minister Aśvavāra made Devāpi a heretic in order to make him unsuitable to rule. Unknown to Śāntanu, he sent brāhmaṇas who made him deviate from the Vedas by uttering heretical words. Since Devāpi was unsuitable to rule because of his degradation, there was no fault in Śāntanu ruling. Indra then supplied rain.
śalaś ca śāntanor āsīd gaḍgāyāṁ bhīṣma ātmavān sarva-dharma-vidāṁ śreṣṭho mahā-bhāgavataḥ kaviḥ
After the dynasty of the moon-god comes to an end in this age of Kali, Devāpi, in the beginning of the next Satya-yuga, will reestablish the Soma dynasty in this world. From Bāhlīka, the brother of Śāntanu, came a son named Somadatta, who had three sons, named Bhūri, Bhūriśravā and Śala. From Śāntanu, through the womb of his wife named Gaḍgā, came Bhīṣma, the exalted, self-realized devotee and learned scholar.
Bhīṣmadeva was the foremost of all warriors. Lord Paraśurāma was very satisfied with him in fighting. By the semen of Śāntanu in the womb of Satyavatī, the daughter of a fisherman, Citrāḍgada took birth.
Uparicaravasus semen, swallowed by a fish produced a daughter. She was raised by the fishermen who were dāsas. Thus she became known as the daughter of a dāsa. She became well known as Satyavatī.
veda-gupto muniḥ kṛṣṇo yato 'ham idam adhyagām hitvā sva-śiṣyān pailādīn bhagavān bādarāyaṇaḥ
mahyaṁ putrāya śāntāya
paraṁ guhyam idaṁ jagau
vicitravīryo 'thovāha
kāśīrāja-sute balāt
svayaṁvarād upānīte
ambikāmbālike ubhe
tayor āsakta-hṛdayo
gṛhīto yakṣmaṇā mṛtaḥ
Citrāḍgada, of whom Vicitravīrya was the younger brother, was killed by a Gandharva who was also named Citrāḍgada. Satyavatī, before her marriage to Śāntanu, gave birth to the master authority of the Vedas, Vyāsadeva, known as Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana, who was begotten by Parāśara Muni. From Vyāsadeva, I, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, was born, and from him I studied, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The incarnation of Godhead Vedavyāsa, rejecting his disciples, headed by Paila, instructed Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to me because I was free from all material desires. After Ambikā and Ambālikā, the two daughters of Kāśīrāja, were taken away by force, Vicitravīrya married them, but because he was too attached to these two wives, he died of tuberculosis.
Citrāḍgada was killed by a Gandharva of the same name in battle. Before her marriage to Śāntanu, Satyavatī gave birth to Vyāsa, protector of the Vedas, and a portion of the Lord. From him I learned Bhāgavatam (idam). Bhīṣma took the two daughters by force at a svayamvara ceremony and gave them to Vicitravīrya.
Bādarāyaṇa, Śrī Vyāsadeva, following the order of his mother, Satyavatī, begot three sons, two by the womb of Ambikā and Ambālikā, the two wives of his brother Vicitravīrya, and the third by Vicitravīrya's maidservant. These sons were Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇòu and Vidura.
Vicitravīrya was without offspring. His mother ordered his brother to produce children. This is supported by scriptural statements. Apatir apaty-lipsur devarād guru prayuktām ṛtumatī: a woman whose husband is dead, desiring offspring can produce a child from her husbands brother with permission of elders.
Dhṛtarāṣṭra's wife, Gāndhārī, gave birth to one hundred sons and one daughter, O King! The oldest of the sons was Duryodhana, and the daughter's name was Duḥśalā.
nakulaḥ sahadevaś ca mādryāṁ nāsatya-dasrayoḥ draupadyāṁ pañca pañcabhyaḥ putrās te pitaro 'bhavan
Pāṇòu was restrained from sexual life because of having been cursed by a sage, and therefore his three sons Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma and Arjuna were begotten through the womb of his wife, Kuntī, by Dharmarāja, by the devatā controlling the wind, and by the devatā controlling the rain. Pāṇòu's second wife, Mādrī, gave birth to Nakula and Sahadeva, who were begotten by the two Aśvinī-kumāras. The five brothers, headed by Yudhiṣṭhira, begot five sons through the womb of Draupadī. These five sons were your uncles.
Pāṇòu was cursed by a sage in the form of a deer from having sex life. Nāsatya-dasrayoḥ means by the Āśvini-kumāras.
From Yudhiṣṭhira came a son named Prativindhya, from Bhīma a son named Śrutasena, from Arjuna a son named Śrutakīrti, and from Nakula a son named Śatānīka.
bhīmasenād dhiòimbāyāṁ kālyāṁ sarvagatas tataḥ sahadevāt suhotraṁ tu vijayāsūta pārvatī
O King! The son of Sahadeva was Śrutakarmā. Furthermore, Yudhiṣṭhira and his brothers begot other sons in other wives. Yudhiṣṭhira begot a son named Devaka through the womb of Pauravī, and Bhīmasena begot a son named Ghaṭotkaca through his wife Hiòimbā and a son named Sarvagata through his wife Kālī. Similarly, Sahadeva had a son named Suhotra through his wife named Vijayā, who was the daughter of the king of the mountains.
In his other wife, Kālī, Bhīma begot a son names Sarvagata. Pārvatī means daughter of the mountain.
Nakula begot a son named Naramitra through his wife named Kareṇumatī. Similarly, Arjuna begot a son named Irāvān through his wife known as Ulupī, the daughter of the Nāgas, and a son named Babhruvāhana in the womb of the princess of Maṇipura. Babhruvāhana became the adopted son of the king of Maṇipura.
Ulupi was the daughter of a Nāga. In the daughter of the king of Maṇipura, given on the condition that the child would be his, he begot Babhruvāhana. That son became the son of the king, who was his grandfather.
Your father, Abhimanyu, was born from the womb of Subhadrā as the son of Arjuna. He was the conqueror of all atirathas [those who could fight with one thousand charioteers]. From him, by the womb of Uttarā, the daughter of Virāòrāja, you were born.
After the Kuru dynasty was annihilated in the Battle of Kurukṣetra, you also were about to be destroyed by the brahmāstra released by the son of Droṇācārya, but by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, you were saved from death.
My dear King! Your four sonsJanamejaya, the eldest, Śrutasena, Bhīmasena and Ugrasenaare very powerful.
Learning of your death by the Takṣaka snake, your son Janamejaya, filled with anger, will sacrifice all the snakes in a snake sacrifice.
After conquering the world and after accepting Tura, the son of Kalaṣa, as his priest, Janamejaya will perform horse sacrifices, for which he will be known as Turaga-medhaṣāṭ.
Tura is the name of the priest.
The son of Janamejaya known as Śatānīka will learn from Yājñavalkya the three Vedas and the art of performing ritualistic ceremonies. He will also learn the military arts from Kṛpācārya and knowledge of ātmā from the sage Śaunaka.
The son of Śatānīka will be Sahasrānīka, and from him will come the son named Aśvamedhaja. From Aśvamedhaja will come Asīmakṛṣṇa, and his son will be Nemicakra.
When the town of Hastināpura is inundated by the river, Nemicakra will live in the place known as Kauśāmbī. His son will be celebrated as Citraratha, and the son of Citraratha will be Śuciratha.
From Śuciratha will come the son named Vṛṣṭimān, and his son, Suṣeṇa, will be the emperor of the entire world. The son of Suṣeṇa will be Sunītha, his son will be Nṛcakṣu, and from Nṛcakṣu will come a son named Sukhīnala.
From Nrcakṣu (yad) will come Sukhīnala.
The son of Sukhīnala will be Pariplava, and his son will be Sunaya. From Sunaya will come a son named Medhāvī; from Medhāvī, Nṛpañjaya; from Nṛpañjaya, Dūrva; and from Dūrva, Timi.
From Sukhīnala will come Pariplava. His son will be Sunaya. Sunayas son will be Medhāvī.
From Timi will come Bṛhadratha; from Bṛhadratha, Sudāsa; and from Sudāsa, Śatānīka. From Śatānīka will come Durdamana, and from him will come a son named Mahīnara.
From Bṛhadratha will come Sudāsa, and from Sudāsa will come Śatānīka.
kṣemakaṁ prāpya rājānaṁ saṁsthāṁ prāpsyati vai kalau atha māgadha-rājāno bhāvino ye vadāmi te
The son of Mahīnara will be Daṇòapāṇi, and his son will be Nimi, from whom King Kṣemaka will be born. I have now described to you the moon-god's dynasty, which is the source of brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas and is worshiped by devatās and sages. In this Kali-yuga, Kṣemaka will be the last monarch. Now I shall describe to you the future Māgadha dynasty.
This dynasty is respected by the devatās and sages (devarṣi-satkṛtaḥ).
sunakṣatraḥ sunakṣatrād bṛhatseno 'tha karmajit tataḥ sutañjayād vipraḥ śucis tasya bhaviṣyati
kṣemo 'tha suvratas tasmād
dharmasūtraḥ samas tataḥ
dyumatseno 'tha sumatiḥ
subalo janitā tataḥ
Sahadeva, the son of Jarāsandha, will have a son named Mārjāri. From Mārjāri will come Śrutaśravā; from Śrutaśravā, Yutāyu; and from Yutāyu, Niramitra. The son of Niramitra will be Sunakṣatra, from Sunakṣatra will come Bṛhatsena, and from Bṛhatsena, Karmajit. The son of Karmajit will be Sutañjaya, the son of Sutañjaya will be Vipra, and his son will be Śuci. The son of Śuci will be Kṣema, the son of Kṣema will be Suvrata, and the son of Suvrata will be Dharmasūtra. From Dharmasūtra will come Sama; from Sama, Dyumatsena; from Dyumatsena, Sumati; and from Sumati, Subala.
Sahadeva was the son of Jārasandha.
From Subala will come Sunītha; from Sunītha, Satyajit; from Satyajit, Viśvajit; and from Viśvajit, Ripuñjaya. All of these personalities will belong to the dynasty of Bṛhadratha, which will rule the world for one thousand years.
From the time of Jārasandha that dynasty will continue for a thousand years. The kings after that will be described in the Twelfth Canto.
Thus ends the commentary on the Twenty-second Chapter of the Ninth Canto of the Bhāgavatam for the pleasure of the devotees, in accordance with the previous ācāryas.
The Twenty-second Chapter describes Draupadī in the Divodasas dynasty, and Jarāsandha, Duryodhana and Arjuna in Rkṣas dynasty.