Historical Elements in the Matsya Purana
by Chaitali Kadia | 2021 | 91,183 words
This page relates ‘Lineages of Budha� 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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Lineages of Budha
King Soma received a son named Budha from the womb of .[1] Then Budha received a son named ʳܰū from the womb of Ila.[2] śī impressed by Pururavā and accepted him as her husband.[3] Urvasi gave birth to eight sons named Āyu, Dṛdāyu, ś, ٳ, ٳṛt, Vasu, Śucividya and Ś by connection with Pururavā. Among them Āyu had five sons named ṣa, Vṛddhśarmā, Raji, Dambha and Vippma.[4] Among them ṣa had seven righteous sons named Yati, ۲پ, Sanyāti, Udbhava, 峦, Śپ and Meghjāti. Among them the eldest Yati became a yogi inhis youth by assuming the form of ղԲ, then the second son ۲پ always took care of the state by taking shelter of the only religion. At that time, Śṣṭ, daughter of demon King Vṛsparvā and ٱ𱹲ī, daughter of Śܰ峦ⲹ, were both wives of ۲پ. Five sons of King ۲پ were born from their wombs. ٱ𱹲ī gave birth to two sons named Yadu and Turvasu and three sons named Druhya, Anu and Puru were born from Śṣṭ. Among them, both Yadu and Puru–were the ones who expanded the dynasty.[5]
岹 dynasty originated by Yadu. The lineages of Turvasu (resident from the frontier of the Greeks) called Yavana. The sons of Druhya became famous as Bhoja and Anu produced the sons who became famous as Mleccha . The Pururava dynasty continued from Puru. For thousands of years, this state has been included in the Kurukula , that is, it has become famous as Kuru dynasty.[6]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 24/2
[3]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 24/12
[4]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 24/32�35
[5]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 24/49�54
[6]:
Matsya ʳܰṇa, Ch. 34/30, 31