excerpts from bhavisya puran

Page 1 of 30BHAVISHYA PURANAEleventh among the Puranas, contains five parts. The first part containsa description of the genesis, greatness of the dates and worship of LordVishnu, Shiva and Surya. Second, third and fourth parts describe about thegreatness of Shiva, Vishnu and Surya respectively.The fifth part contains a description of the heaven. Like other Puranas,Bhavishya Purana also contains a description of the ancient kings andChandra and Surya dynasties. Interestingly, Bhavishya Purana contains adescription of a game that resembles modern chess to a great extent. In all,the subject matter of Bhavishya Purana seems to be an attempt to proveand establish the supremacy of Brahma.The Bhavishya Purana is an ancient text authored by Sri Vyasa Muni,the compiler of the Vedic texts. It is listed among the eighteen majorPuranas. Bhavishya means "future" and Purana means "history", so thetext's name would translate literally as "The History of the Future". Thoughthe text was written many thousands of years before the recorded eventstook place, by the power of his mystic vision, Sri Vyasa was able toaccurately predict the happenings of the modern times. One of the text'spoetic styles is to present the events as though they have alreadyhappened. This is a common practice in Sanskrit poetry, and does notindicate that the book was written in modern times. Modern scholars rejectthe contents of Bhavishya Purana mostly on the grounds that itsinformation is too accurate. But we should ask ourselves: If there was anempowered saint, who knew past, present and future, and if he chose towrite a book named "the History of the Future", shouldn't it contain accuratePage 2 of 30information about the modern times, as the title suggests? We cannotdisqualify it simply because it speaks accurately of the British controllingIndia, Hitler fighting the world, and Max Mueller misrepresenting the Vedicteachings. "Veda" means knowledge, and the Vedic texts containknowledge of everything - past, present and future.This Purana consists of 7 chapters:[From the Pratisarga Parva, Chapters Four to Seven.]Suta Goswami said: Once upon a time in Hastinapura, Pradyota theson of Kshemaka was leading an assembly and meanwhile the great sageNarada arrived there. King Pradyota happily honored him. Having himseated on the seat the sage told king Pradyota, "Your father was killed bythe mlecchas, therefore he attained Yamaloka or the hellish planet. If youperform a ‘mleccha-yajna’, then by the effect of this sacrifice your father willattain the heavenly planets."Hearing this king Pradyota immediately called the best of the learnedBrahmanas and started ‘mleccha-yajna’ in Kuruksetra. They built a yajna-kunda which was 16 yojanas in square (128 miles). They meditated on thedemigods and offered oblations of mlecchas. There are haras, hunas,barvaras, gurundas, sakas, khasas, yavanas, pallavas, romajas and thosewho are situated in different dvipas and in kamaru, china and the middle ofthe ocean; all of them were called with the mantra and burnt to ashes. Thenhe (the king) gave dakshina (donation) to the brahmanas and performedabhiseka. As a result his father Kshemaka went to the heavenly planets.After that he became famous everywhere as a mleccha-hanta or destroyerPage 3 of 30of mlecchas. He ruled the earth for ten thousand years and went to heaven.He had a son named Vedavan who ruled for two thousand years.At that time the Kali purusha prayed to Lord Narayana along with hiswife. After sometime the Lord apperared to him and said, "This age will bea good time for you. I will fulfil your desire having various kinds of forms.There is a couple named Adama and his wife Havyavati. They are bornfrom Vishnu-kardama and will increase the generations of mlecchas.Saying this, the Lord disappeared. Having great joy the Kali purusha wentto NilachaVyasa said: "Now you hear the future story narrated by SutaGoswami. This is the full story of of Kali-yuga, hearing this you will becomesatisfied."In the eastern side of Pradan city where there is a a big God-givenforest, which is 16 square yojanas in size. The man named Adama wasstaying there under a Papa-Vriksha or a sinful tree and was eager to seehis wife Havyavati. The Kali purusha quickly came there assuming the formof a serpent. He cheated them and they disobeyed Lord Vishnu. Thehusband ate the forbidden fruit of the sinful tree. They lived by eating airwith the leaves called udumbara. After they had sons and all of thembecame mlecchas. Adama's duration of life was nine-hundred and thirtyyears. He offered oblations with fruits and went to heaven with his wife. Hisson was named Sveta-nama, and he lived nine-hundred and twelve years.Sveta-nama's son was Anuta, who rulled one-hundred years less than hisfather. His son Kinasa rulled as much as his grandfather. His son MalahallaPage 4 of 30ruled eight-hundred ninety five years. His son Virada rulled 160 years. Hisson Hamuka was devoted to Lord Vishnu, and offering oblations of fruits heachieved salvation. He ruled 365 years and went to heaven with the samebody being engaged in mleccha-dharma.Having good behavior, wisdom, qualities like a brahmana andworship of God, these things are called mleccha-dharma. The great soulshave declared that the dharma of the mleccha is devotion to God, worshipof fire, nonviolence, austerity and control of the senses. The son ofHamuka was Matocchila. He ruled for 970 years. His son Lomaka ruled777 years and went to heaven. His son Nyuha (Noah) ruled for 500 years.He had three sons named Sima, Sama and Bhava. Nyuha was a devoteeof Lord Vishnu.Once the Lord appeared in his dream and said: “My dear Nyuha,please listen, there will be devastation on the seventh day. Therefore, youhave to be very quick that you make a big boat and ride in it. O chief of thedevotees, you will be celebrated as a great king”.Then he made a strong boat which was 300 feet long, 50 feet wideand 30 feet high. It was beautiful and all the living entities could take shelterin it. He then himself rode in it, engaged in meditating on Lord Vishnu.Lord Indra called the devastating cloud named Sambartaka andpoured heavy rain continuously for 40 days. The whole earth, Bharat-varsa,had merged in the water and four oceans came up together. Only Visala orBadarikasrama was not submerged. There were 80,000 greatPage 5 of 30transcendentalists in Visala who joined with king Nyuha and his family. Allof them were saved and everything else was destroyed.At that time all the sages praised the eternal energy of Lord Vishnu.Being pleased by the prayers of the sages, the Vishnu-maya reduced thewaters of devastation. After one year gradually the earth become visible.Under the hill there is a place named Sisina and the king was situated inthat place with his other people. When the water completely dried up, kingNyuha came back to his place.Suta Goswami continued: The mleccha, king Nyuha becameattached to Lord Vishnu and as a result Lord Vishnu increased hisgeneration. Then he created a language fit for the mlecchas, unfavorable tothe Vedas. He named it as brahmi-bhasha, or brahmi language, full of badwords, for increasing the degradation of Kali-yuga. The Lord who is Himselfthe master of intelligence gave this language to Nyuha. Nyuha named histree sons opposite. They were known as Sima, Hama, Yakuta and alsoYakuta, Sapta putra, Jumara and Majuya. The name of their countries wereknown as Madi, Yunana, Stuvaloma, Tasa and Tirasa.Hama who was the second son of his father, had four sons know asKusa, Misra, Kuja and Kanaam. Kusa had six sons - Havila, Sarva,Toragama, Savatika, NimaruhaI and Mahavala. Their sons were known asKamala, Sinara and Uraka. And their countries names are Akvada, Bavunaand Rasana.Page 6 of 30After telling this story Suta Goswami influenced by Yoga-nidraentered mystic slumber. He woke up after two thousand years andthereupon he said: “Now I’m going to say about the generation of Sima.Because he was the first son of his father he became the king. Thismleccha king ruled over the country for 500 years. His son Arkansoda ruledfor 434 years. His son Sihla ruled for 460 years. His son Iratasya ruled thesame length as his father. His son Phataja ruled for 240 years. His son Rauruled for 237 years. His son Juja ruled the same length as his father. Hisson Nahura ruled for 160 years, and he destroyed his many inimical kings.His son Tahara ruled the same length as his father. He had three sons:Avirama, Nahura and Harana. Thus I have explained the generation ofmlecchas with the indication of their names only. The mleccha language isconsidered the lowest language because it bears the curse of goddessSarasvati. Thus I have summarily narrated the rise of the mlecchas in Kali-yuga.Sanskrt is the language by which the whole Bharata-Varsa is beingpraised and glorified. The same language, after going to another countrybecame the mleccha language and mlecchas took advantage of it.After hearing all this, the sages situated in Badarikashrama,worshipped Lord Nara-Narayana and meditated upon them for 200 years.When they woke up from their meditation, they inquired from their teacherSuta Goswami:“O disciple of Sri Vyasa, you are so fortunate and greatly intelligent,may you live long. Now please tell us who is the king at the present time?"Page 7 of 30Suta Goswami said: “At the present time, the Kali-yuga has already passedits 3000 years. Now the king Sankha is ruling the earth and in the mlecchacountries the king named Sakapat is ruling. Please hear about how theycame up."When the Kali-yuga passed 2000 years, the dynasty of mlecchasincreased. They created many paths to grow and gradually the whole earthbecome full of mlecchas. The spiritual master and teacher of the mlecchaswas named Musa. He was residing on the bank of the river Sarasvati, andhe spread his doctrince throughout the whole world. As soon as Kali-yugastarted, the devotion to the Lord and the language of the Vedas weredestroyed. There are four kinds of mleccha languages: Vraja-bhasa,Maharastri, Yavani and Garundika. In this way there are four million kindsof other languages.For example: paniyam (water) is called pani, bubhuksa-hunger iscalled bhukh. Paniyam-drinking is called papadi and bhojanam-eating sicalled kakkanam. Isti is called suddharava, istini is called masapavani,ahuti is called aju and dadati is called dadhati. The word pitri is calledpaitara and bhrata is bather and also pati. This is the yavani lanugage inwhich the asva is called aspa, Janu is jainu and sapta-sindhu is calledsapta-hindu.Now you hear about Gurundika language. Ravi-vara (the first day ofthe week) is called sunday, phalguna and chaitra months are calledpharvari (February). Sasti is called sixty, these kinds of examples are there.Page 8 of 30Crime is becoming prominent in the holy place of Sapta-puri. Graduallythe people of Aryavata are becoming theives, hunters, bhillas and fools.The followers of mleccha-dharma in foreign countries are intelligent andhaving good qualities, whereas the people of Aryavarta are bereft of goodqualities. Thus the ruling of mlecchas is also in Bharata (India) and itsislands. Knowing all this, O great and intelligent sage, you should justperform the devotional service to Lord Hari.The great sage Saunaka inquired: “Please tell us, what was the reasonthat the mlecchas did not arrive in Brahmavarta.Suta Goswami said: That was by the influence of goddess Sarasvatithat they could not enter that place. By the order of the demigods, when theKali-yuga pursued his 1,000 years, a brahmana named Kasyapa comedown to earth from the heavenly planets with his wife Aryavatil. They hadten spotless sons who are known by the names: Upadhayaya, Diksita,Pathaka, Sukla, Misra, Agnihotri, Dvi-vedi, Tri-vedi, Catur-vedi and Pandey.Among them was the learned one full of knowledge. He went to Kashmirand worshipped goddess Sarasvati with red flowers, red akshata (rice),incense, lamps, naivedya (food offerings) and puspanjali (flower offerings).To please her he praised her with some prayers, asking her for betterknowledge of Sankrt to put mlecchas into illusion. Being pleased by hisprayers she remainded situated in his mind and blessed him withknowledge. Then the sage went to the country known as Misra and put allthe mlecchas into illusion by the greace of goddess Sarasvati.Page 9 of 30Then he made 10,000 people as dvijas or twice born brahmanas; hemade 2,000 people into vaishyas; and the rest of them as shudras. Hecame back with them and staying in Arya-desha (India) he engaged in theactivites of the sages. They were known as Aryans and by the grace ofgoddess Sarasvati their generation gradually increased upto 4 million, boththe men and women with their sons and grandsons. Their king, Kasyapamuni, ruled the earth for 120 years.There were 8,000 sudras in the county known as Rajputra (Rajput)and their king was Arya-prithu. His son was Magadha. The sage made hima king and left.Saunaka inquired: "O disciple of Vyasa, O Lomaharsana, please tellus who were the kings to rule the earth in Kali-yuga, after Magadha?"Suta Goswami said: When king Magadha, the son of Kasyapa wasruling the earth, he remembered his father's administration and heseparated the Arya-desha (India) into many states. The state which is onthe eastern side of Pancala is known as Magadha, the state of Kalinga ison the east-south side, the state of Avanta is in the south, Amarta-desha isto the south-west, Sindhu-desha is on the western side, Kaikaya is to thenorth-west, Madra-desha is in the north, and Koninda-desha is to the north-east. These states are named according to his sons' names. Afterperforming a sacrifice he gave the states to his sons. Lord Balabhadrabecame pleased with his sacrifice, and Sisunaga appeared from thesacrifice as his son. He ruled for 100 years and his son Kakavarma ruledfor 90 years. His son Kshemadharma ruled for 80 years and his son ruledPage 10 of 30for 70 years. His son Vedamisra ruled for 60 years. His son Ajata-nipuruled for 50 years. His son Darbhaka ruled for 40 years, his son Udayasvaruled for 30 years, his son Nanda-Vardhana ruled for 20 years, his sonNanda-suta, who was born from the womb of a sudri or a low class lady,also ruled for 20 years. His son Pranancala ruled for 10 years. His sonParananda also ruled 10 years. His son Samananda ruled for 20 years. Hisson Priyananta ruled for 20 years, his son Devananda also ruled for 20years. his son Yajna-bhanga ruled for 10 years. His son Mauryanandaruled for 10 years. And his son Mahananda fuled for 10 years.At this time Lord Hari was remembered by Kali. At that time the greatand famous Gautama, the son of Kasyapa introduced the Buddhist religion,and attained Lord Hari in Pattana.Gautama ruled over 10 years. From him Shakya muni was born, whoruled 20 years. His son Shuddhodana ruled 30 years. His sonShakyasimha became the king on Satadri after 2000 years and he ruled for60 years, by which time all the people were Buddhists. This was the firstposition of Kali-yuga and the Vedic religion was destroyed.If Lord Vishnu becomes a king then all the people would follow Him.The activities of the world are carried out by the prowess of Lord Vishnu.He is the master of maya or the illusory energy and whoever takes shelterof that Lord Hari, though he may be a sinful and abominable person, willbecome liberated.Page 11 of 30Buddha-simha was born from Shakyasimha and he ruled for only 30years. Buddha-simha’s son was Chandra-gupta, who married with adaughter of Suluva, the Yavana king of Pausasa. Thus he mixed theBuddhists and yavanas. He ruled for 60 years. From him Vindusara wasborn and ruled for the same number of years as his father. His son wasAshoka. At this time the best of the brahmanas, Kanyakubja, performedsacrifice on the top of a mountain named Arbuda. By the influence of Vedicmantras, four Kshatriyas appeared form the yajna. Among these fourPramara was samavedi, Chapahani was yajurvedi, Shukla was trivedi andPariharaka was the Atharvavedi. They were accustomed to ride onelephants. They kept Ashoka under their control and annihilated all theBuddhists. It is said there were 4 million Buddhists and all of them werekilled by uncommon weapons. After that Pramara became king in Avantaand he constructed a large city called Ambavati for his happiness. It was asbig as 4 yojanas or about 32 miles.Then Suta Goswami said: "My dear brahmanas I’m being influencedby yoga-nidra, therefore, please go to your respective ashramas andmeditate on Lord Vishnu."After the completion of 2,000 years, Suta Goswami said: When thekali-yuga had passed his 3,710 years, at that time the king was Pramarawho rulled 6 years, from him Mahamada was born. He ruled 3 years andhis son Devapi did the same. His son Devaduta also did the same. Fromhim Gandharva-sena was born, who went to the forest after ruling for over50 years and having given his kingdom to his son Shankha. Shankha ruledfor over 30 years. Lord Indra sent a heavenly girl to Gandharva-senaPage 12 of 30named Viramati. A jewel like son was born form her womb. At the time ofhis birth, there were flowers raining from the sky, many auspiciousinstruments were played and the wind was blowing pleasingly. The name ofthe baby was Siva-drishti, who later left for the jungle with his disciples.After 20 years he became perfect in Karma-yoga. When kali-yugacopmleted 3,000 years, the terrible symptoms of kali had appeared. Thatbaby took birth in the secret place of Kailasa, by the benediction of LordShiva, to destroy the shakas and to increase the Arya-dharma or the Vedicreigion. His father Gandharva-sena named his son as Vikramaditya andbecome happy. This child was very intelligent and very pleasing to hisparents. When he was 5 years old, he left for the forest to performausterities and he continued it upto 12 years. After 12 years he went to theholy city named Ambavati with all the opulence and accepted thetranscendental throne sent by Lord Shiva. For his security goddess Parvaticreated a Vetala (a king of ghosts) and sent it to king Vikramaditya’spalace. Once the powerful king went to the temple of Lord Shiva named asMahakaleshvara, who is the chief of the devas, and who has a bow namedPinaka. There he worshipped Lord Shiva. In that place he built a religiouscouncil hall with the pillars made of various metals and decorated withmany kinds of jewels and covered with so many plants and creepers andflowers. In that hall he kept a celestial throne. He invited the foremostbrahmanas who are well-versed in Vedic knowledge, worshipped them withproper hospitality and heard many religious histories from them. After thatone demigod named Vitala come there having a form of a brahmana.Glorifying and blessing the king, he sat down on the seat and said: Omaster of this earthly planet, king Vikramaditya, if you are very eager tohear them I will describe the stories and histories to you.Page 13 of 30Thus ends the seventh chapter of the Pratisarga Parva of theBhavishya Purana.[From the third part of the Pratisarga Parva.]Shri Suta Gosvami said: In the dynasty of king Shalivahana, therewere ten kings who went to the heavenly planets after ruling for over 500years. Then gradually the morality declined on the earth. At that timeBhojaraja was the tenth of the kings on the earth. When he saw that themoral law of conduct was declining he went to conquer all the directions ofhis country with ten-thousand soldiers commanded by Kalidasa. Hecrossed the river Sindhu and conquered over the gandharas, mlecchas,shakas, kasmiris, naravas and sathas. He punished them and collected alarge ammount of wealth. Then the king went along with Mahamada(Mohammad), the preceptor of mleccha-dharma, and his followers to thegreat god, Lord Shiva, situated in the desert. He bathed Lord Shiva withGanges water and worshipped him in his mind with pancagavya (milk,ghee, yoghurt, cow dung, and cow urine) and sandalwood paste, etc. Afterhe offered some prayers and pleased him.Suta Goswami said: After hearing the king’s prayers, Lord Shiva said:O king Bhojaraja, you should go to the place called Mahakakshvara, thatland is called Vahika and now is being contaminated by the mlecchas. Inthat terrible country there no longer exists dharma. There was a mysticdemon named Tripura, whom I have already burnt to ashes, he has comeagain by the order of Bali. He has no origin but he achieved a benedictionfrom me. His name is Mahaoda and his deeds are like that of a ghost.Page 14 of 30Therefore, O king, you should not go to this land of the evil ghost. By mymercy your intelligence will be purified. Hearing this the king came back tohis country and Mahamada came with them to the bank of the river Sindhu.He was expert in expanding illusion, so he said to the king very pleasingly:O great king, your god has become my servant. Just see, as he eats myremnants, so I will show you. The king became surprised when he saw thisjust before them. Then in anger Kalidasa rebuked Mahamada, “O rascal,you have created an illusion to bewilder the king, I will kill you, you are thelowest..."[...]That city is known as their site of pilgrimage, a place which wasMadina or free from intoxication. Having a form of a ghost (Bhuta), theexpert illusionist Mahamada appeared at night in front of king Bhojarajaand said: O king, your religion is of course known as the best religionamong all. Still I am going to establish a terrible and demoniac religion bythe order of the Lord. The symptoms of my followers will be that they first ofall will cut their genitals, have no shikha, but having beard, be wicked,make noise loudly and eat everything. They should eat animals withoutperforming any rituals. This is my opinion. They will perform purificatory actwith the musala or a pestle as you purify your things with kusha. Therefore,they will be known as musalman, the corrupters of religion. Thus thedemoniac religion will be founded by me. After having heard all this the kingcame back to his palace and that ghost went back to his place.Page 15 of 30The intelligent king, Bhojaraj established the language of Sanskrit inthree varnas - the brahmanas, kshatriyas and vaisyas - and for the shudrashe established prakrita-bhasha, the ordinary language spoken by commonmen. After ruling his kingdom for 50 years, he went to the heavenly planet.The moral laws established by him were honored even by the demigods.The arya-varta, the pious land is situated between Vindhyacala andHimacala or the mountains known as Vindhya and Himalaya. The Aryansreside there, but varna-sankaras reside on the lower part of Vindhya. Themusalman people were kept on the other side of the river Sindhu.On the island of Barbara, Tusha and many others also the followers ofIsamsiha were also situated as they were managed by a king or demigods.[From the 29th chapter of the Pratisarga Parva.]Long ago in the country known as Citrartha, the inhabitants of theheavenly planets used to come to play during the time of autumn. One daya heavenly apsara know as Manjughosha came to that place where thesage Shuka was residing. Seeing this beautiful boy, she tried to attract himwhile singing and dancing, being overwhelmed by lusty desires. Shepraised him with a beautiful prayer holding her hands and bowing down.Somehow, she pleased the muni. Then the glorious Shuka, hearing thisauspicious prayer asked her to request a benediction. Manjughoshahumbly said: ”O lord, you are the protector of those who came to yourshelter, therefore I’m at your shelter, please become my husband”. Thesage accepted her and after some time they produced a son named ‘Muni’who performed austerity very strictly upto 12 years. He married thedaughter of Svarnadeva, the god of gold. They gave birth to a daughterPage 16 of 30named Kinnari. She was very young and beautiful. She performed austerityto please Lord Shiva, and as a benediction lord Shiva intrusted her to asober sage Makaranda.Then her father, Muni, asked lord Shiva to bless her, so that they willsuccessfully make progress in this world.Lord Shiva said: Upto 30 years you will enjoy your country in themiddle of the earth, then it will be destroyed. After hearing this Muni went tohis place with Makaranda and resided there. As soon as the 29th yearstarted the battle took place among those kings who took birth as theincarnations of the associates of Krishna. Bauddha, the lord of nyuhas (thelessened people) attacked the beautiful city of Netrapala, thinking that thiscity is wonderfully decorated with various kinds of jewels. The powerful kingBauddha-simha who had seven-million soldiers, fought with those kingswho had only three million soldiers. The fight went on terribly between thearmies for seven days and nights. The great powerful kings, who killed allthe inimical armies protected by Baudha-simha, were Yoga-simha, Bhoga-simha and Vijaya.After that more Buddhists came from the countries known as Shyamaand Japaka, and all of them were magicians. Again they had a large battlewhich lasted for one month. Then Netrasimha arrived with seven millionsoldiers protected by eight generals, for the destruction of the Buddhists.Being afraid, all the Buddhists left India completely and went to China tocontinue the war from there. The opposite army also continued followingthem. When they arrived on the bank of the Huha river, it was the month ofPage 17 of 30Magh, the second half part of the month of January, the fight took placeagain. There were one million soldiers each from the countries of Syamaand Japaka, and ten million soldiers from China assembled for a fight. Onthe other side, Krishnamsa, Deva, Netrapala, Mandalika, Dhanyapada,Lallasimha, Talana and Jana nayaka were the generals, each of themhaving one million soldiers. There was a terrible battle between theBuddhists and the Aryans. In that war seven million Buddhists, and twomillion Aryans were killed. Being afraid the Buddhists ran away from thebattle and went to their home to produce a wooden army with the help of amachinery arrangement. They made ten-thousand elephants (made out ofwood) along with warriors, one million horses, one thousand buffaloes, onethousand hogs, one thousand tigers, one thousand swans, and seventhousand camels. All these creatures had wooden warriors on their back.Thus with the wooden army which was 125,000 in number, they killed twomillion soldiers protected by Krishnamsas. Seeing this wonder Jayanta, theexpert fighter shot fire arrows toward the wooden armies, so that they wereimmediately destroyed, being burnt to ashes. Only three million kshatriyas(warriors) were left, and they glorified the proficient warrior Jayanta againand again. Then the Buddhists from China, made a twenty thousand strongiron horse calvary and sent them to fight. The powerful warrior Yogasimha,riding on an elephant held the bow and arrows in his hands and shot to theneck of the iron warriors. Being afflicted by the arrows of Yogasimha fivethousand soldiers were killed. Seeing this, Bauddhasimha made an irontiger and sent it to Yogasimha. By the attack of that iron tiger the braveYogasimha was finally killed, and then Bhogasimha riding on a horse, wentto fight with the tiger. He killed the tiger by throwing a missile, and roaredloudly. Then a lion was sent to him by Bauddhasimha and thus hePage 18 of 30(Bhogasimha) was killed by a lion. When the son of Swarna-vati (Jayanta)saw that his maternal uncles were already dead, he rode on a powerfulhorse and went to Bauddhasimha. He took illusory arrows and put theopposite army into delusion along with Bauddhasimha. He captured ten-thousand kings including Bauddhasimha, and returned to Krishnamsashaving destroyed the mechanical armies.Then all of them happily went to the city and forcibly “looted” thewealth from the palace, which was very opulent, and came back the fort ofthe king. Jayanta came and released Bauddhasimha. After being releasedhe offered his daughter Padmaja to Jayanta and also offered 100,000,000golden coins for the pleasure of his in law. After that all the Buddhists madetheir vows there itself saying “We will never go to Arya-desa to invade thecountry.” Then they offered their homage and left. They went to Netrapalawith their three million remaining soldiers.[From the 31st chapter of the Pratisarga Parva.]Suta Goswami said: The great powerful king of Madrakesaworshipped the mendicants of the heavenly planets (the Asvini kumaras)for five years and after having received a benediction from them heproduced ten sons and one beautiful young daughter named Kantinati.King Madraka invited Maharaj Suryavarna (the present king ofHastinapura), and gave his daughter to him with proper conduct.Having accepted the new wife, Suryavarna quickly returned to hishome with his army. There was a mystic demon named Karbura, the son ofBigbhisana, when he saw Kantimati the daughter of king Madrakesa, hePage 19 of 30came there and kidnapped her in their presence and went to a mountaincalled Sahyadri. Seeing this incident Mahiraja became very upset andlamented again and again. Mahiraja came to Hastinapura and sent amessage to Krishnamsa. He explained everything to him and immediatelywith five hundred warriors Krishnamsa went to Sahyadri mountain and saidfearlessly: “O best of the demons, please listen. Your father Bibhishana is agreat devotoee, and you are the dear son of him, therefore, you should notact in this manner (sinfully) which is the cause of the destruction of family.Do you remember, long ago mother Sita was kidnapped by Ravana andwhat happened to him?”The rakshasa said, "Previously she was the daughter of a Gandharvaand my beloved wife, but because of a curse by a sage she took birth onthe earthly planet. Therefore, feeling her separation I went to Madrakesa.Although I stayed there so many days, being afraid of the king I could notkidnap her. Now she is in my control, but if you defeat me in battle you cantake her back. Then Krishnamsa started fighting with him with a sword andit went on for seven nights. Finally he defeated the rakshasa, and withKantimati came back to Delhi to see Mahiraja. The king (Mahiraja) offered10,000,000 golden coins to the great Krishnamsa. Then he came toPramdavana, or the forest called Pramoda, with his friends.Suta Goswami said: There was a powerful king named Purnamala inPattana. He worshipped the Vasus for five years and received abenediction from them. By their blessings he had ten sons and a daughternamed Vidyun mala. For the marriage of his daughter he invited kingPage 20 of 30Mahiraja and with seven million soldiers he gave his daughter to the son ofMahiraja (Bhima).Bhima came back happily to his home (Hastinapura) with his beautifulwife. Then the king of paisaca-dasa, Sahoda, came with ten-thousandmlecchas to get Vidyunmala. They came to Kurukshetra by the order ofBali, the grandson of Prahlada Maharaja. They broke the deities of gods,killed so many cows and in the places of sacred water they put cow-blood.Sahoda, the mleccha king, wrote a letter and sent it to Mahiraja. KingMahiraja answered: "O mleccha king, you are the master of the mlecchasi,why are you worried about Vidyunmala? You should know that I’m the onewho can shoot arrows just by hearing a sound and I’m the central point ofthe country of the thieves."Then the king went to Kurukshetra with three million soldiers. Therewas a large, terrible fight between them. At night in the month of Jesta(July), Bali Maharaja came from Patala, the lowest region with ten-thousand demons and killed the soldiers of the king very quickly, eatingthem again and again. The king, being afraid took shelter of goddessSarasvati. After that immediately Krishnamsas arrived and killed the ten-thousand demons. They came to Bali, the lord of the demons, and pleasedhim with their words.Then Baliraja said: I’m very pleased with you, now you can ask forany benediction.Page 21 of 30They said: These demons should never come to Aryadesha (India)with you, all of you should stay always in mleccha-desha and eat thefollowers of mleccha-dharma.Baliraja became upset hearing these fearful, terrible words.Then Krishnamsa said: as long as I’m in this world you should simplystay in your home, after that you come here and do whatever you like”.Hearing this the mleccha king Sahoda went back to Rasatala, thesixth lowest region of demons.[From Pratisarga Parva, 4th Part, Chapter 6.]The sage (Saunka) said: “O great fortunate one, you know everythingplease tell us about the kings who came after Mahiraja.Suta Goswami said: The ghostly Kutukoddina, with human nature, wassituated in the kingdom of Delhi. The best king Bhapasena, the grandson ofVirasena was situated in the beautiful city of Aligarh. This city wasprotected by yadavas. Kutukaddin with ten-thousand warriors went thereand defeated him and returned to Delhi. Then so many kings form othercountries came there and defeated him and rejected him from theircountries. When Shahoddina heard this, he came to Delhi, conquered thekings and broke all the deities. After that so many mlecchas came from allsides and ruled the kingdom for 5, 6 or 7 years. They had destroyed theplaces of pilgrimage and the temples, therefore as a reaction they becomePage 22 of 30short-lived. From today, the mleccha kings will continue for a hundredyears, therefore O sages, you should quickly go to Vishala(Badarikashrama) with me.Then all the sages sadly left this place (Naimisaranya) and went toVishala, the best of the Himalayas and meditated upon Lord Hari, being insamadhi (trance). And after a hundred years all of them attained thekingdom of God.[From the 7th chapter of the Pratisarga Parva.]The sun god, being pleased by the praise of the demigods, said: Bythe order of the Lord Krishna, Sudarshana will take birth in the Dvapara-yuga, and will be known as Nimbaditya (Nimbarka). He will be able toremove the declination of religious principles.Suta Goswami said: Now you hear about the pastimes of the greatNimbarka. Lord Krishna personally ordered him to appear on theauspicious bank of Narmada river, which flows to the southern side ofmountain Meru. That state is known as Tailanga, the place used by thedevarsis, the godly sages.Lord Krishna said: "You receive knowledge from devarsi Narada andestablish the true principles of religion. You should remain in Mathura,Naimisaranya and Dvaraka."Lord Sudarshana accepted the order of Lord Krishna sarying, "Yes,"and appeared on the earth to fulfill the desires of the devotees. There wasPage 23 of 30a broad-minded holy brahmana living in the auspicious state of Tailanga.His name was Aruna and was well versed in the Vedas and Vedangas. Hiswife was known as Jayanti. They were living an austere life like the sages.The brilliant luster of Sudarshana suddenly entered in the heart of Jayanti,and by that luster she looked brilliant like the moon. When the time arrivedwith all auspiciousness and good qualities, in Gaura paksha purnima ofKartika month, Vrisha rasi, the moon in Krittika, the five grahas (planets)situated in higher places, in the evening at the time of sunset, in Masa-lagna, the Lord of the universe (Sudarshana), who engaged the wholeuniverse in Vedic religion, appeared from mother Jayanti (as Nimbarka).One day Lord Brahma went to Nimbarka’s ashrama just before thesunset and said: O brahmana, I’m very hungry, as long as the sun is in thesky, please give me something to eat. (I will not eat after the sun sets). Thebrahmana (Nimbarka) gave him food and while he was eating the sun wentdown. Then the brahmana by his power kept a sudarshana on a nimbetree. Lord Brahma wondered seeing that sunlike shine and paid hisobeisances to the brahmana by lying flat on the ground. Pleased with hisausterity Lord Brahma said: Excellent. You will become famous on thisearth, and you will be known as Nimbaditya (Nimbarka - One who madethe sun appear from a Neem tree).[From the 7th chapter of the Pratisarga Parva.]Brihaspati said: Long ago, during the age of treta, O Indra, there wasa brahmana named Shakrasharma, in Ayodhya. He worshipped demigodssuch as the Asvini Kumaras, Rudras, Vasus, and Surya with the mantrasPage 24 of 30mentioned in the Yajur-veda. After worshipping, he satisfied them byoffering oblations every day. Thus being pleased with his worship all the330 million demigods awarded him all desired objects and even the rarestthings. By the benediction of the demigods the brahmana lived on this earthfor ten-thousand years without getting old and having no disturbance. Afterleaving his body he become the Sun-god and predominated the sun planetfor one hundred thousand years, before going to Brahmaloka. He spenteight thousand celestial years for visiting the higher planets and thenreturned to the sun planet.Hearing this, Lord Indra with his sober intelligence began to worshipthe sun-god along with other demigods in the month of June-July. On thepurnima, the full moon day, the sun-god came down to the earth and saidto demigods: I will take birth in Kali-yuga in Vrindavana and this brahmanawill execute favorable acts for the demigods. He will be born as a son ofMadhava, named Madhu and follow the Vedic path.Suta Gosvami said: Saying this the sun-god created a light from hisbody and sent it to Vrindavana. Attracting all the irreligious people withpleasing speech he gave them Vaishnavi-shakti or the spiritual energy ofLord Vishnu, the bestower of enjoyment and liberation. Thus he becomefamous, known as Madhvacarya.Jiva said: In the age of Dvapara, there was a brahmana named MeghaSharma. He was very much religious, intelligent, learned and a follower ofthe Vedic path. He was engaged in farming, and with the ten percent profitfrom farming he was worshipping the demigods every day with devotion.Page 25 of 30Once there was no rain during the administration of Maharaja Shantanu forfive years, but the farm of Megha sharma was about four miles wider andwas watered by rain. Naturally the grain-rate increased and Megha sharmabecame rich by taking advantage of the scarcity. Other people being sodistressed took shelter of the king. The king called Megha sharma andsaid: O great brahmana, I offer my obeisances unto you, please becamemy Guru and guide us, so that we can be free from the scarcity.Megha sharma said: when the month of Shravana (July-August) starts,you should call twelve Vedic brahmanas to chant one-hundred thousandtimes the mantra of the sun-god with the proper mind. Then on the fullmoon day (purnima) offer one tenth the number of oblations in thesacrificial fire, through the brahmanas. If you could do this as mentioned,you will become free from anxiety. So the king performed accordingly andfed all the brahmanas, then the sun-god being pleased by this pouredheavy rain on the earth from all sides. After this king Shantanu, engaged inperforming Surya-vrata and become a greatly pious person. Whoever hetouched with his hand immediately turned to a young man. By the mercy ofthe sun-god, Meghasarma lived for five-hundred years, being freed fromold age, and then went to sun-planet. After 100,000 years he will attainBrahmaloka. While he was speaking thus, sun-god revealed his identity toJiva and went to Prayaga (Allahabad) and being in a happy mood he saidto the demigods: “In kali-yuga, when the mlecchas will be ruling thekingdom, I will come to Vrindavana and preach for the mission of theDevas."Page 26 of 30Suta said: Then the sun-god descended in Vrindavana as a son ofDeva-sharma, named Sridhara. He studied Srimad Bhagavatam verydeeply and a great commentary on it which is known as Sridhar-bhasya,the commentary of Sridhara.Brihaspati said: Long ago there was a brahmana named Heli, in thebeautiful city Pampapura. He was a worshipper of the sun-god and heknew the 64 arts. He avoided the mood of accepting dakshina (donations)and he became an artist, having established a workshop for clothes,paintings, pictures, metal statues etc. He spent five thousand coins toestablish it. Whatever profit he made he used for worshipping the sun-godin the month of Magha (January-February) by performing sacrifices. Thusthe sun-god Vishvakarma (the architect of the gods) became pleased withthis sacrifice and descended on the top of a big pillar in Pampasarovara,the lake named Pampa, having a brilliant shining form. At the noon time,Heli offered food to the sun-god according to his desire. In this way hesatisfied the three worlds. After leaving his body he entered into the sun-planet. Therefore O king of devas you may worship the sun-god, he willhelp you.Suta said: Lord Indra hearing this from his guru, began to worship thesun-god Visvakarma along with other demigods. Thus being pleased withtheir worship Tvashta (Visvakarma) said: O gods, please listen to mywords, I will appear in a village named Bilvagram in Bengal, and I will bethe poet known as Jayadeva, the compiler of Nirukti. Saying this the sun-god went to Bengal and took birth in the house of a brahmana namedKanduke. When he was just five years old, he was engaged in the serviceof his parents and continued for twelve years. After sometime his parentsPage 27 of 30left their body and Jayadeva did all the final ceremonies (Shraddha) inGaya. Being satisfied they went to heaven. Then Jayadeva lived in a jungleas a detached brahmana.At the age of twenty three, a brahmana (someone) offered hisbeautiful daughter to Lord Jagannatha. At the end of his worship the eternalLord Aniruddha, having the form of Darubrahma, directly spoke thus: “OSatyavrata, please listen to Me, it is my order that you offer your daughterPadmavati to Jayadeva because he is the body of Mine, or he is as goodas Me.” Then he found the detached brahmana (Jayadeva) and leaving hisdaughter in front of him, he went to his home. Padmavati served herhusband for so many years accepting him as a beautiful and learned one.Jayadeva compiled a book known as Nirukta, the Vedic vocabulary, one ofthe six Vedangas. There were five kinds of Niruktas, but in Kali-yuga theywere destroyed by the evil people and Prakrit-bhasha or the illiteratelanguage was established. For the sake of the demigods, Panini the authorof Ashtadhyayi grammar, overtook them and established the pure Sanskritlanguagae.Once the evil minded Kali situated in the hearts of thieves, plunderedall the money of the brahmana Jayadeva which was given to him by theking. Following this they cut both his hands and legs and went homeleaving Padmavati aside. Jaydeva was thrown into a ditch. Padmavati tookhim out cried and lamented again and again seeing the situation of herhusband.Page 28 of 30One day, when the king Dharmapala was out hunting. He saw thesage Jayadeva without hands and feet and asked: “Who put you in such acondition?”Jayadeva answered: “No one put me in this condition, O king. It isdue to my previous activities that I am suffering now in this abominablecondition."Having heard this statement, the religious king put the brahmana on apalanquin along with his wife and brought them to his palace. The king builta dharma-shala, religious institution, after receiving instructions fromJayadeva.One day those same thieves, dressed as Vaishnavas came to theking and said: “We are very much expert in the scriptures and therefore wehave come to you. O best of the kings, Lord Vishnu, while being in thestone (Shalagrama) eats food cooked by us everyday with love. If you don’tbelieve us, you can see this right here.”Saying thus the slaves of kali by their power showed the king a fourhanded form of Lord Vishnu eating. Being struck with wonder, kingDharmapala said to Jayadeva: “O my gurudeva, some vaishnavas, thedevotees of Lord Vishnu have come to my palace, and they have shownme the Lord before my very eyes, therefore please come quickly."The theives saw Jayadeva and became struck with wonder. Theysaid to the king in a joking mood: “O king, this brahmana was a cook in thePage 29 of 30palace of the king of Gaudadesa (Bengal). Once he became very muchgreedy for money and he mixed some poison in the food and offered it to aking. When the king come to know about it he ordered him to be crucified.Then we came to him (Jayadeva), and knowing him to be an offender, weinstructed him in the Vedic knowledge. Then the king refused to crucifyhim, but he cut off his hands and legs. At that time the king became ourdisciple, having been enlightened by us.”While they were speaking thus, the earth broke in two and thosethieves fell within the earth, being sent to the lowest hell known as patala-loka. Jayadeva began to cry to the thieves and while he was crying hishands and legs appeared to be as they were. Then he explained to thebewildered king what had happened. The king became very happy afterhearing everything from him. Jayadeva wrote a song called Gita-Govinda,the song sung for the pleasure of Lord Govinda. The king read the songand attained liberation. “O brahmanas, thus I have narrated the birth storyof Jayadeva, now you listen about how the Supreme Lord appeared as SriKrishna Chaitanya ."[From Pratisarga Parva, 4th Part, Chapter 6.]The sage (Saunka) said: “O great fortunate one, you know everythingplease tell us about the kings who came after Mahiraja.Suta Goswami said: The ghostly Kutukoddina, with human nature,was situated in the kingdom of Delhi. The best king Bhapasena, thegrandson of Virasena was situated in the beautiful city of Aligarh. This cityPage 30 of 30was protected by yadavas. Kutukaddin with ten-thousand warriors wentthere and defeated him and returned to Delhi. Then so many kings formother countries came there and defeated him and rejected him from theircountries. When Shahoddina heard this, he came to Delhi, conquered thekings and broke all the deities. After that so many mlecchas came from allsides and ruled the kingdom for 5, 6 or 7 years. They had destroyed theplaces of pilgrimage and the temples, therefore as a reaction they becomeshort-lived. From today, the mleccha kings will continue for a hundredyears, therefore O sages, you should quickly go to Vishala(Badarikashrama) with me.Then all the sages sadly left this place (Naimisaranya) and went toVishala, the best of the Himalayas and meditated upon Lord Hari, being insamadhi (trance). And after a hundred years all of them attained thekingdom of God.

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  • Hare Krishna, 
    How do we reply to those who think that this text has been altered by the british over time?

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