Historical Elements in the Matsya Purana
by Chaitali Kadia | 2021 | 91,183 words
This page relates ‘Sons of Maharshi Kaushika� of the study on the historical elements of the Matsya-purana: one of the eighteen Mahapuranas which are Sanskrit texts that have preserved the cultural heritage, philosophy, religion, geography, etc of ancient India. This Matsyapurana was originally written in 20,000 verses and deals with topics such as architecture, ancient history, polity, religion and philosophy.
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Sons of Ѳṣi ś첹
In ܰܰṣeٰ there was a saintly Ѳṣi named Kousika. He had seven sons named ṛp, Krodhana, Hinsra, ʾśܲԲ, Kavi, Vāgdusta and Pitṛvartī. After the death of his father, they all became disciples of Ѳṣi Garga.[1] after some days they all are died and due to Karma dosa, they all originated as birder in a city called śܰ (Mandasora). Then after fasting, they abandoned their body.[2] Subsequently, they were born as deer in the Kālanjara mountain in front of Lord Nīlakantha. Due to the disinterest, they fasted in the pilgrimage-place and sacrificed their lives righteously.[3] After that, those seven Dzī took birth in the ԲDZ as 䲹첹 . In this birth they were named as ܳ, Kumuda, Śܻ, 岹śī, Sunetraka, Sunetra and Anśumān.[4] One day seeing a magnificent king one of those 䲹첹 who was the obedient son of ś첹, Pitṛvartī, got the aspiration of the kingdom. Similarly, the other two seeing the ministers of king, they expressed their desire to get a minister post in this land. The rest four among them were all born in the superior kula of Բ . The first of those three came to be known as Brahmadatta as the son of King վᲹ and the other two were sons of ṇḍ첹 and ܲ첹.[5] The beautiful girl of Devala, who was known as Sannati, was the wife of King Brahmadatta.[6] The rest four 䲹첹s were born as sons of an old Brahmin in the city of the same where Brahmadatta resides. At that time, they had four names�ٳṛt, ղٱ岹śī, Vidyācanda and Tapotsuka.[7] After remembering the previous birth Brahmadatta anointed his son named վṣvԲ and took the path of the forest himself.[8]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 20/2, 3
[3]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 20/15
[4]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 20/17, 18
[5]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 20/21, 24
[6]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 20/26
[7]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 20/2, 3
[8]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 21/35