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Adh. 1 The Brahma-Purana begins with the benedictory stanzas. A beautiful description of the Naimisaranya follows. Being requested by the sages assembled at the Naimisaranya to witness the sacrifice that was conducted there, the Suta Lomaharsana starts telling the Brahma-Purana to them. He states that the same Purana was revealed long ago by Brahma as a reply to the answers of Daksa, Lomaharsana continues his narrative by giving an account of the world's creation. At the beginning the waters were created and from them the egg manifested out of which Lord Brahma emerged. Brahma then created the Manasa progeny, Rudra and others and Vaivasvaba Manu. Adh. 2 Manu married Satarupa and had two sons Priyavrata and Uttampada and a daughter Kamya by her. A detailed account of a

139 the descendants of Uttanapada follows. In the descendants of Uttanapada Vena is born and as he was ruling unrighteously the sages killed him and created prthu after rubbing his right hand. From the descendants of Prthu, the Pracetasas were born. As the fire emanating from their mouths burnt every-thing, the sages offered him Marisa, the daughter of trees, as a wife. them was born Daksa Prajapati and he had sixty daughters who were given in marriage to different persons. Adh. 3 The affount of creation is continued. At first the To Gods and others are created. Then Daksa Prajapati created the Manasa progeny at the instance of Brahma, but when in this way, he was unable to increase the beings, he married Asikni, the daughter of Virana Prajapati, and he procreated many sons by her then but all of them perished. DaksaDhad sixty daughters by Asikni and all of them were given in marriage to different persons. Then follows an account of their progeny. The account of the creation of Maruts from the sage Kasyapa and Diti, one of the daughters of Daksa, is given in details. Adh. 4 Brahma divides the kingdom between different persons. The story of Prthu's birth is repeated. The king Prthu milches the whole earth and produces various objects.

140 Adh. 5 The Suta Lomaharsana then relates the accounts of different manvantaras including the descriptions of Gods, Sages, Indra and others therein and then follows an account of the Mahapralaya and the alpapralaya. Adh. 6 Manu. Then follows an account of the creation of Valvasvata Aditi, the daughter of Daksa Prajapati and wife of the sage Kasyapa gave birth to Vaivasvan. Vaivasvan marries Samjna, the daughter of Tvasta and gets three sons and two daughters by her. As Samjna was unable to bear the lustre of Vaivasvan, she keeps her proto-type chaya in her place and goes in the forest to practise penance. Here chaya gives birth to other children and shows partiality towards her own children, whereupon Yama, the son of Samjna, tries to kick upon her but she curses him. Yama complains about the matter to her father Vaivasvan about his mother's partiality.Whereupon Vaivasvan comes to know about the interchange of chaya and Samjna and Tvasta lessens his lustre by paring him on a wheel. Then Vaivasvan goes to the forest where his wife was practising penance in the form of a man and follows her in the form of a horse and theref the Asvins are created from them. Adh. 7 Vaivasvan Manu had nine sons. Once he performed a

141 sacrifice with a view to obtain a son and he offered an oblation of the shares of Mitravaruna. kr From the sacrifice, a maiden Ila emerged. After seeing Mitravaruna, she was going back to Manu when on her way she was invited by Buddha, the son of Soma, She then gave birth to Pururava and she for sexual intercourse. was turned into Sudyumna. descendants of Sudyumna. Then follows a description of the Among the descendants of Saryati, one Then of the sons of Vaivasvata, was born Raivata who gets married his daughter Revati with Balarama, the brother of krsna. follows an account of the descendants of Iksvaku, one of the sons of Manu Vaivasvan, and among his descendants the king Kuvalasva was born and being requested by the sage Uttanka, he kills the demon Dhundhu and becomes well-known as Dhundhumara. In the line of Dhundhumara, Satyavrata was born. As he carried away some girl when her wedding ceremony was being performed, his father drove him out. He went outside the city and saved Galama, the son of the sage Visvamitra, who was being taken for sale by his mother for her maintenance when the sage Visvamitra had gone to practise penance. Adh. 8 In order to maintain the wife of the sage Visvamitra, Satyavrata killed the cow of the sage Vasistha. The sage Vasistha cursed him that as he had committed three sins, viz. displeasing his father, killing the cow of his teacher and made use of a non-sprinkled thing, he would be known as Trisanku. As

142 Satyavrata maintained the family of the sage Visvamitra, he fulfilled his desire and sent him to heaven together with his body. In the line of Satyavrata, Sagara is born. An interest ing anecdote regarding the birth of Sagara with poison is related. Bahu, the father of Sagara was addicted to vices and his kingdom was taken away by the Haihayas, Talajanghas, Sakas and others. Being very dejected, the king Bahu went to the forest Thereupon his wife Yadavi wanted to and gave up his life. follow him. Her co-wife gave poison to her but as she was pregnant the sage Aurva requested her not to become a Sati. Eventually, the child that was born to her was poisonous and he was called Sagara. Sagara destroyed all his enemies and regained his kingdom. He performed an Asvamedha. Someone carried away the horse and concealed it under the earth. The sons of Sagara dug the ocean and suspected the sage Kapila to be the thief of the horse whereupon the sage burnt the sixty thousand sons of Sagara, To his remaining four sons the sage Kapila granted the boons and directed that Samudra should be regarded as the son of Sagara and henceforth he was known as Sagara. In the genealogy of Sagara, Dilipa gave birth to Bhagiratha who brought the river Ganga to earth. As a result Ganga is called Bhagirathi. A description of the descendants of Bhagiratha follows. Adh. 9 Soma is created out of the lustre emanating from the

143 eyes of Atri, the mind-born son of lord Brahma. He was made a king and he performed the Rajasuya sacrifice and out of egoism shi he carried away Tara, the wife of the sage Brhaspati. On her account a terrible war ensued between the daityas and the danavas. Eventually, Brahma meddled in the matter and Brhaspati regained Tara. But the child to whom Tara gave birth was considered to be Soma's son and was named Budha. Then follows an account of the descendants of Soma. Jahnu Adh. 10 Among the descendants of Pururava, Jahnu, the son of Budha, was born. The river Ganga wanted to be his wife but as the sage Jahnu did not grant her desire, she drowned his sacrificial hall. The sage drank up Ganga but at the request of other sages, he accepted her as his daughter, and thenceforth she was known as Jahnavi. Kusika, a descendant of Jahnu, practised penance in order to get Indra as his son. was born to him and was known as Gadhiraja. daughter Satyavati married to the sage Ecika. Eventually, Indra Gadhi got his The sage Reika gave two pots to his wife, one for her and one for her mother with a view that his wife might gave birth to a lustrous Brahmin whereas his mother-in-law might give birth to a mighty hero but through mistake the carus were interchanged Thereupon Satyavati prayed to Reika x that her son might be a lustrous Brahmin whereas the power of caru might be transferred to her grand-child. The

144 boon was granted and Satyavati gave birth to Jamadagni. Satyavati became the holy river Kausiki. Gadhi gave birth to the sage Visvamitra and the sage Jamadagni married Renuka and gave birth to Parasurama. A description of the progeny of Visvamitra follows. Adh. 11 Raji was born to Ayu, one of the sons of Pururava and he gave birth to 500 sons. A terrible war ensued between Gods and demons in which being requested by the Gods Raji defeated the Daityas and attained the status of Indra. But Indra beguiled him by sweet words and deprived him of his status. After Raji's death his sons again assumed the position of Indra but with the passage of time they became weak and Indra defeated them. A description of the progeny of Anena, one of the sons of Ayu follows. Among his descendants, Dhanvantari was born and he learnt the Ayurveda from Bharadvaja. Among his descendants, Divodasa became the king of Varanasi but on account of the curse of the sage Nikumbha, the city was burnt and remained desolate for a thousand years and at the end of that period, Alarka, one of the descendants of Divodasa rehabilitated An account of the descendants of Alarka follows. it. Adh. 12 An account of the progeny of Nahusa, one of the sons

145 of Ayu, is given. When Yayati reached old age and yet W retained the desire to enjoy life, he asked his sons to give their youth to him but none of them except the youngest Pura who exchanged his youth for his father's old age complied. Hence Yayati cursed the other sons. Adh. 13 An account of the descendants of Puru, one of the sons of Yayati is given. Among the descendants of Puru, Bharata was born to Dusyanta and Sakuntala and his descendants were called the Bharatas. The genealogy of Puru includes the description of the Ajamidha dynasty. Kartavirya was a descendant of Puru; he obtained thousand hands by the grace of * Dattatreya. He defeated Ravana and gave many cities in dana to the fire and the fire devoured them together with the hermitage of the sage Vasistha. The sage Vasistha cursed him that he would be killed by Parasurama, the son of Jamadagni. An account of the descendants of Kartavirya follows. Adh. 14 An account of the descendants of Krost, the son of Yadu, Yayati's eldest son, is given. Here under the name of Krostu, the descendants of Vrsni, born among the descendants of Xxnk, Yadu, is given. Vasudeva was born and had fourteen wives. A very short account of krsna's birth is given and an anecdote regarding the birth Among the descendants of Vrsni,

146 of Kalayavana is given. and others went to Dvarka. Through the fear of Kalayavam, krsna Adh. 15 An account of the descendants of Krostu is given. Among his descendants Jyamagha was born. He had no son but he captured a girl from a battle and prophesized that she would be the wife of a son that would be born to him, he did get a son and got hin married with the maiden he had brought after conquering the battle. An account of the descendants of Krostu is continued. Adh. 16 An account of the descendants of Krostu is continued. Again the descendants of Vrani are given. Among them Prasenjit and Satrajit were born. The story of the syamantaka jewel is given. The syamantaka jewel was given to Satrajit by the Sun. Krsna wanted it but did not ask for it. brother Prasenjit. Satrajit gave it to his Once while hunting Prasenjit was killed by 鈥� a lion and he took away the jewel but as krsna was known to have desired the jewel, everyone took krsna to be the murderer of Prasenjit. On hearing about the false blame attached to him, krsna went in search of the real murderer. He traced out the lion's footsteps and found that he was killed by a rksa, tracing out his track, krsna found that it was Jambavan who had killed the lion. A terrible fight ensued between Jambavan and krsna

147 at the end of which krsna got the jewel and gave it to Satrajit and married Jambavati, the daughter of Jambavan, and Satyabhama, the daughter of Satrajit. An account of the descendants of Vrsni is continued. Adh. 17 Bhoja Satadhanva took away the spamantaka jewel after killing Satrajit and gave it to Akrura. A terrible fight ensued between krgna and Satedhanya and finally krsna killed Satadhan va but he did not get the jewel. When krsna told Balarama that he did not get the jewel, Balaramadid not believe him and went away to Mithila and taught gadavidya to Duryodhana. Eventually, by the powers of Yoga krsna came to know about the possession of the syamantaka by Akrura and asked for it. When Akrura gave it to him without any hesitation krsna gave it back to him. Adh. 18 This adhyaya contains a description of the goography of the world and that of India describing its varsas, rivers and mountains. Adh. 19 It continues the description of Bharatavarsa and its nine divisions and contains a description of the Jambudvipa. Adh. 20 It contains a description of Plaksadvipa, Salmaladvina,

ming 148 Kusadvipa, Krauncadvipa, Sakadvina, Puskaradvipa and Lokaloka mountain. Adh. 21 It contains a description of the seven Patalas and the greatness of Ananta residing there is described. Adh. 22 It contains a description of various hells and mentions the sins by committing which the sinners go there. Adh. 23 It contains a description of the various worlds like Bhub, Bhuvah and Svah. Adh. 24 It describes the Sisumaracakra of the siry. Adh. 25 It contains the names of holy places.