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[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. We meditate upon Śiva, the perfect deity, who supports the seven w…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. On hearing the words of sage Upamanyu the great soul, devotion to …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. On hearing his words Kṛṣṇa was much surprised. He spoke to the sag…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O dear, O fortunate one, you are blessed, O dear one of great inte…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] Note: Manu differs in regard to the number of sins ( pāpa ) arising f…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] Note: For the comparison of the Principal and subsidiary sins as ment…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. As a result of the four kinds of sins, all living beings go to Yam…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] Note: The chapter mentions several hells ( naraka ) and their cells t…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. In the hellish fires, the sinners are roasted and dried up by dive…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. He who follows false scriptures goes to the hell Dvijihva. He is t…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Those who commit sins go along (he path to Yama with great misery.…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. The gift of drink is the greatest and the most excellent of all gi…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O sage, the fruit is the same whether one performs penance in a fo…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Ten charitable gifts are called great gifts ( mahādāna ) and are p…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. For the benefit of human beings tell me that which when given as g…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O excellent sage, above the nether regions, are the hells where th…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O son of Parāśara, listen succinctly to what I explain, the sphere…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. I shall explain the Bhāratavarṣa. South of the Himālaya mountain…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. The extent to which the rays of the sun and the moon shine and ill…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O omniscient Sanatkumāra, O the most excellent of the good, explai…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. Brahminhood is difficult to be achieved. Brahmin is born of the …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O dear, O great sage, for realizing the worldly detachment please …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] Summary: The description of infancy and other stages and the impurity…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O sage, if you are pleased with me you shall narrate succinctly wh…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O omniscient Sanatkumāra, O sage, the nature of women has been hea…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O lord, the perfect knowledge of Kāla has been mentioned by you. N…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. A Yogin attains the region of wind arising from the Yogic Ether. O…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. O great lord of the gods, the way of dodging Kāla has been narra…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. The great narrative of the conversation of Sanatkumāra and Vyāsa h…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. When the subjects were created the patriarch Āpava as Puruṣa acqui…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O son of Sūta, tell me quickly about the details of the creation o…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. O brahmin, they are Aditi, Surasā, Ariṣṭelā, Danu, Surabhi, Vina…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-5. Such is the creation as mentioned in the Manvantara, Svārociṣa, …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Please describe in detail all the Manvantaras. I wish to hear of a…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Vivasvata was born of Dakṣa ’s daughter and Kaśyapa the great sage…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Nine sons all equal to him were born of Vaivasvata Manu. Later the…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Formerly Ikṣvāku was born as the son of Manu through the nose. He …
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. By his devotion to Viśvāmitra his compassionate nature and his vow…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. How were the heroic sons of Sagara born? By what means did the six…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. On hearing about the excellent solar race of Śrāddhadeva, the sage…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O foremost among the performers of penance, the Pitṛs in the heave…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. Mārkaṇḍeya of great intellect, O foremost among the devotees of th…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O Sūta having Vyāsa as preceptor, please tell me now the mode of w…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-3. O Sūta of great intellect, O store-house of mercy, please narrat…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] Note: For the close similarity of the form and contents of the presen…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. There was a demon Rambha who was the crest-jewel of the race of Da…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. There was a Daitya Śumbha and another equally powerful Niśumbha. T…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1-2. O holy lord, O brahmin, what did Śumbha, the suppressor of the g…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O Sūta, the most excellent among the omniscients please mention th…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O intelligent one, all of us are anxious to hear the episode of Du…
[ Sanskrit text for this chapter is available ] 1. O blessed disciple of Vyāsa, O Sūta the most excellent among the k…