Mahabharata
– 95
by
Sankar Mukherjee
&
Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
Aadivamsavatarana Parva
Janamejaya said, Oh great sage Vaisampayana! I heard from you the
account of the incarnations, of the gods, the Danavas, the
Rakshasas,&of the Gandharvas & the Apsaras as well. I now desire that
you recite the beginning of the Kuru race.
Vaisampayana said, Oh king! The characters of the kings were
diverse.Because each king had his own way of pursuing Dharma,Artha &
kama.
To hear the narration of the races generated by Dakshaprajapati, is a
secred rite.
The utterance of Vaisampayana is significant. Commonly it is assumed
that ancient India was indifferent to history. But this is not
true. Because Vaisampayana looks upon recalling the past as a sacred
activity.
Vaisampana adds that the kings like Vaibaswata ,Manu,Bharata,Kuru,Puru Ajmera, were great ksatryas. Kastryas are the warrior clan.So it is expected that they excel in fights & battles.But Vaisampayana observed that these ksatryas were as great devotee as the
sages.Thus ancient India cherished the notion of a sage king just as
Plato spoke of the philosopher king.To recount their stories yields
good fortune,virtue, wealth, fame & long life.
At the outset the creator Brahma had ten sons. All of them were
demons.So Brahma burnt them all with the fire from his mouth.
There after Daksa was born from the thumb of the Brahma. It was from
Daksa that the universe was peopled. That is why Brahma is called the
grandfather of the existence.
Daksa the son of Brahma had thousand sons by his wife Veerini.Each son
was spiritually as advanced as Daksa himself.
Narada taught them the philosophy of Samkhya so that they might
attain liberation.
There after Daksa deemed his fifty daughters as sons to beget
children so that the world is peopled.
He gave away ten daughters to Dharma & thirteen daughters to
Kashyapa.He gave away twenty seven daughters to Moon.
Kashyapa had thirteen wives.The eldest of them was Aditi.With the aid
of Kasyapa Aditi gave birth to all the gods such as Indra etc. She was
the mother of Sun god as well.The Sun god in turn gave birth to Yama
or the god of death.
The Sun god had a daughter in Yamuna & a second son in Manu. Brahma
entrusted Manu to create man. And the word man perhaps derived from
manava only suggests that s/he has generated from Manu. Among them
there were Ksatryas & Brahamanas.
The Brahamanas were engrossed with the Vedas.But
Vena,Dhrisnu,Narisyanta,Nabhag
Nabhagarista – these ten sons of Manu became Kastryas in their
aptitutes.
Manu also gave birth to another fifty sons. But they were ruined due
to fighting with each other. This we heard.
by
Sankar Mukherjee
&
Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
Aadivamsavatarana Parva
Janamejaya said, Oh great sage Vaisampayana! I heard from you the
account of the incarnations, of the gods, the Danavas, the
Rakshasas,&of the Gandharvas & the Apsaras as well. I now desire that
you recite the beginning of the Kuru race.
Vaisampayana said, Oh king! The characters of the kings were
diverse.Because each king had his own way of pursuing Dharma,Artha &
kama.
To hear the narration of the races generated by Dakshaprajapati, is a
secred rite.
The utterance of Vaisampayana is significant. Commonly it is assumed
that ancient India was indifferent to history. But this is not
true. Because Vaisampayana looks upon recalling the past as a sacred
activity.
Vaisampana adds that the kings like Vaibaswata ,Manu,Bharata,Kuru,Puru Ajmera, were great ksatryas. Kastryas are the warrior clan.So it is expected that they excel in fights & battles.But Vaisampayana observed that these ksatryas were as great devotee as the
sages.Thus ancient India cherished the notion of a sage king just as
Plato spoke of the philosopher king.To recount their stories yields
good fortune,virtue, wealth, fame & long life.
At the outset the creator Brahma had ten sons. All of them were
demons.So Brahma burnt them all with the fire from his mouth.
There after Daksa was born from the thumb of the Brahma. It was from
Daksa that the universe was peopled. That is why Brahma is called the
grandfather of the existence.
Daksa the son of Brahma had thousand sons by his wife Veerini.Each son
was spiritually as advanced as Daksa himself.
Narada taught them the philosophy of Samkhya so that they might
attain liberation.
There after Daksa deemed his fifty daughters as sons to beget
children so that the world is peopled.
He gave away ten daughters to Dharma & thirteen daughters to
Kashyapa.He gave away twenty seven daughters to Moon.
Kashyapa had thirteen wives.The eldest of them was Aditi.With the aid
of Kasyapa Aditi gave birth to all the gods such as Indra etc. She was
the mother of Sun god as well.The Sun god in turn gave birth to Yama
or the god of death.
The Sun god had a daughter in Yamuna & a second son in Manu. Brahma
entrusted Manu to create man. And the word man perhaps derived from
manava only suggests that s/he has generated from Manu. Among them
there were Ksatryas & Brahamanas.
The Brahamanas were engrossed with the Vedas.But
Vena,Dhrisnu,Narisyanta,Nabhag
Nabhagarista – these ten sons of Manu became Kastryas in their
aptitutes.
Manu also gave birth to another fifty sons. But they were ruined due
to fighting with each other. This we heard.
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