King Yayāti Takes Pūru’s Youth
King Yayāti Takes Pūru’s Youth
|| 9.18.1 ||
śrī-śuka uvāca
yatir yayātiḥ saṁyātir
āyatir viyatiḥ kṛtiḥ
ṣaḍ ime nahuṣasyāsann
indriyāṇīva dehinaḥ
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King Parīkṣit, as the jīva has six senses, King Nahuṣa had six sons, named Yati, Yayāti, Saṁyāti, Āyati, Viyati and Kṛti.
The Eighteenth Chapter describes the quarrel between Devayānī and Śarmiṣṭhā and Pūru accepting the old age of his father Yayāti.
|| 9.18.2 ||
rājyaṁ naicchad yatiḥ pitrā
dattaṁ tat-pariṇāmavit
yatra praviṣṭaḥ puruṣa
ātmānaṁ nāvabudhyate
Knowing that by ruling the kingdom a person cannot realize his real self, Yati, the eldest son of Nahuṣa, did not accept the kingdom, although it was offered by his father.
|| 9.18.3 ||
pitari bhraṁśite sthānād
indrāṇyā dharṣaṇād dvijaiḥ
prāpite 'jagaratvaṁ vai
yayātir abhavan nṛpaḥ
The brāhmaṇas made Nahuṣa fall from the heavenly planets because of offending Indra’s wife, and he became a python. Yayāti became the king.
Nahuṣa was made to fall from Svarga by sages such as Agastya.
|| 9.18.4||
catasṛṣv ādiśad dikṣu
bhrātṝn bhrātā yavīyasaḥ
kṛta-dāro jugoporvīṁ
kāvyasya vṛṣaparvaṇaḥ
King Yayāti had four younger brothers, whom he allowed to rule the four directions. Yayāti himself married Devayānī, the daughter of Śukrācārya, and Śarmiṣṭhā, the daughter of Vṛṣaparvā, and ruled the entire earth.
Yayāti married the daughter of Śukrācārya (kāvyasya) and the daughter of Vṛṣaparvā.
|| 9.18.5 ||
śrī-rājovāca
brahmarṣir bhagavān kāvyaḥ
kṣatra-bandhuś ca nāhuṣaḥ
rājanya-viprayoḥ kasmād
vivāhaḥ pratilomakaḥ
Mahārāja Parīkṣit said: Śukrācārya was a brāhmaṇa sage, and Mahārāja Yayāti was a kṣatriya. How did this pratiloma marriage between a fallen kṣatriya man and a brāhmaṇa woman occur?
Hearing that he accepted a brāhamaṇa’s daughter, Parīkṣit calls Yayāti a fallen kṣatriya, since he did not know the circumstances.
|| 9.18.6-7 ||
śrī-śuka uvāca
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