Eighth Skandha · Chapter 3
Sourceश्रीनारायण उवाच महीं देव: प्रतिष्ठाप्य यथास्थाने च नारद । वैकुण्ठलोकमगमद् ब्रह्मोवाच स्वमात्मजम् ॥ १ ॥ स्वायम्भूव महाबाहो पुत्र तेजस्विनांवर । स्थाने महीमये तिष्ठ प्रजाः सृज यथोचितम् ॥ २ ॥ देशकालविभागेन यज्ञेशं पुरुषं यज । उच्चावचपदार्थैश्च यज्ञसाधनकैर्विभो ॥ ३ ॥ धर्ममाचर शास्त्रोक्तं वर्णाश्रमनिबन्धनम् । एतेन क्रमयोगेन प्रजावृद्धिर्भविष्यति ॥ ४ ॥ पुत्रानुत्पाद्य गुणतः कीर्त्या कान्त्यात्मरूपिणः । विद्याविनयसम्पन्नान् सदाचारवतां वरान् ॥ ५ ॥ कन्याश्च दत्त्वा गुणवद्यशोवद्भ्यः समाहितः । मन: सम्यक् समाधाय प्रधानपुरुषे परे ॥ ६ ॥ भक्तिसाधनयोगेन भगवत्परिचर्यया । गतिमिष्टां सदा वन्द्यां योगिनां गमिता भवान् ॥ ७ ॥ इत्याश्वास्य मनुं पुत्र पद्मयोनिः प्रजापति: । प्रजासर्गे नियम्यामुं स्वधाम प्रत्यपद्यत ॥ ८ ॥ प्रजाः सृजत पुत्रेति पितुराज्ञां समादधत् । स्वायम्भुवः प्रजासर्गमकरोत्पृथिवीपतिः ॥ ९ ॥ प्रियव्रतोत्तानपादौ मनुपुत्रौ महौजसौ । कन्यास्तिस्रः प्रसूताश्च तासां नामानि मे शृणु ॥ १० आकूतिः प्रथमा कन्या द्वितीया देवहूतिका । तृतीया च प्रसूतिर्हि विख्याता लोकपावनी ॥ ११ आकूतिं रुचये प्रादात्कर्दमाय च मध्यमाम् । दक्षायादात्प्रसूतिं च यासां लोक इमाः प्रजाः ॥ १२ रुचेः प्रजज्ञे भगवान् यज्ञो नामादिपूरुषः । आकूत्यां देवहूत्यां च कपिलोऽसौ च कर्दमात् ॥ १३ सांख्याचार्यः सर्वलोके विख्यातः कपिलो विभुः । दक्षात्प्रसूत्यां कन्याश्च बहुशो जज्ञिरे प्रजाः ॥ १४ यासां सन्तानसम्भूता देवतिर्यङ्नरादयः । प्रसूता लोकविख्याता सर्वे सर्गप्रवर्तकाः ॥ १५ यज्ञश्च भगवान् स्वायम्भुवमन्वन्तरे विभुः । मनुं ररक्ष रक्षोभ्यो यामैर्देवगणैर्वृतः ॥ १६ कपिलोऽपि महायोगी भगवान् स्वाश्रमे स्थितः । देवहूत्यै परं ज्ञानं सर्वाविद्यानिवर्तकम् ॥ १७ सविशेषं ध्यानयोगमध्यात्मज्ञाननिश्चयम् । कापिलं शास्त्रमाख्यातं सर्वाज्ञानविनाशनम् ॥ १८ उपदिश्य महायोगी स ययौ पुलहाश्रमम् । अद्यापि वर्तते देवः सांख्याचार्यो महाशयः ॥ १९ यन्नामस्मरणेनापि सांख्ययोगश्च सिद्ध्यति । तं वन्दे कपिलं योगाचार्यं सर्ववरप्रदम् ॥ २० एवमुक्तं मनोः कन्यावंशवर्णनमुत्तमम् । पठतां शृण्वतां चापि सर्वपापविनाशनम् ॥ २१ अतः परं प्रवक्ष्यामि मनुपुत्रान्वयं शुभम् । यदाकर्णनमात्रेण परं पदमवाप्नुयात् ॥ २२ द्वीपवर्षसमुद्रादिव्यवस्था यत्सुतैः कृता । व्यवहारप्रसिद्ध्यर्थं सर्वभूतसुखाप्तये ॥ २३
śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca mahīṃ deva: pratiṣṭhāpya yathāsthāne ca nārada | vaikuṇṭhalokamagamad brahmovāca svamātmajam || 1 || svāyambhūva mahābāho putra tejasvināṃvara | sthāne mahīmaye tiṣṭha prajāḥ sṛja yathocitam || 2 || deśakālavibhāgena yajñeśaṃ puruṣaṃ yaja | uccāvacapadārthaiśca yajñasādhanakairvibho || 3 || dharmamācara śāstroktaṃ varṇāśramanibandhanam | etena kramayogena prajāvṛddhirbhaviṣyati || 4 || putrānutpādya guṇataḥ kīrtyā kāntyātmarūpiṇaḥ | vidyāvinayasampannān sadācāravatāṃ varān || 5 || kanyāśca dattvā guṇavadyaśovadbhyaḥ samāhitaḥ | mana: samyak samādhāya pradhānapuruṣe pare || 6 || bhaktisādhanayogena bhagavatparicaryayā | gatimiṣṭāṃ sadā vandyāṃ yogināṃ gamitā bhavān || 7 || ityāśvāsya manuṃ putra padmayoniḥ prajāpati: | prajāsarge niyamyāmuṃ svadhāma pratyapadyata || 8 || prajāḥ sṛjata putreti piturājñāṃ samādadhat | svāyambhuvaḥ prajāsargamakarotpṛthivīpatiḥ || 9 || priyavratottānapādau manuputrau mahaujasau | kanyāstisraḥ prasūtāśca tāsāṃ nāmāni me śṛṇu || 10 ākūtiḥ prathamā kanyā dvitīyā devahūtikā | tṛtīyā ca prasūtirhi vikhyātā lokapāvanī || 11 ākūtiṃ rucaye prādātkardamāya ca madhyamām | dakṣāyādātprasūtiṃ ca yāsāṃ loka imāḥ prajāḥ || 12 ruceḥ prajajñe bhagavān yajño nāmādipūruṣaḥ | ākūtyāṃ devahūtyāṃ ca kapilo'sau ca kardamāt || 13 sāṃkhyācāryaḥ sarvaloke vikhyātaḥ kapilo vibhuḥ | dakṣātprasūtyāṃ kanyāśca bahuśo jajñire prajāḥ || 14 yāsāṃ santānasambhūtā devatiryaṅnarādayaḥ | prasūtā lokavikhyātā sarve sargapravartakāḥ || 15 yajñaśca bhagavān svāyambhuvamanvantare vibhuḥ | manuṃ rarakṣa rakṣobhyo yāmairdevagaṇairvṛtaḥ || 16 kapilo'pi mahāyogī bhagavān svāśrame sthitaḥ | devahūtyai paraṃ jñānaṃ sarvāvidyānivartakam || 17 saviśeṣaṃ dhyānayogamadhyātmajñānaniścayam | kāpilaṃ śāstramākhyātaṃ sarvājñānavināśanam || 18 upadiśya mahāyogī sa yayau pulahāśramam | adyāpi vartate devaḥ sāṃkhyācāryo mahāśayaḥ || 19 yannāmasmaraṇenāpi sāṃkhyayogaśca siddhyati | taṃ vande kapilaṃ yogācāryaṃ sarvavarapradam || 20 evamuktaṃ manoḥ kanyāvaṃśavarṇanamuttamam | paṭhatāṃ śṛṇvatāṃ cāpi sarvapāpavināśanam || 21 ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi manuputrānvayaṃ śubham | yadākarṇanamātreṇa paraṃ padamavāpnuyāt || 22 dvīpavarṣasamudrādivyavasthā yatsutaiḥ kṛtā | vyavahāraprasiddhyarthaṃ sarvabhūtasukhāptaye || 23
English translation
1-23. Narayana said O Narada! When the Bhagavan went away to Vaikuntha, establishing the Earth in due position and equilibrium, Brahma spoke thus to his son “O Powerful Son of mine, O Svayamhhuva! The best of those that are filled with Teja (energy) and Tapas! Now go on with your work of creation, as you think proper, on this earth, the Upholdress of all the Jivas. And worship the Purusa, the Lord of Sacrifices, according to the division of place and time, and with all the necessary materials of various kinds, high and low, and those that will be useful in performing your sacrifices. Do Dharma according to the S'astras, and according to the Varna(the different castes) and Asrama (Brahmacharya, etc.); thus by gradually going on step by step in the path of Yoga, your progeny will be multiplied. Beget lovely sons and daughters, of good fame, culture, modesty and ornamented with various other good qualifications, like yourself; then marry your daughters when they will come to the marriageable age, to proper persons of good qualifications and then fix your mind thoroughly on the Excellent Purusa that is the very Best. O Child! Now go and serve the Bhagavan with devotion as I have advised you; and you will certainly attain that which is difficult to be worshipped and obtained. Advising thus his son Svayambhuva Manu, and starting him in his work; of creation, the Lotus-born, the Lord of all the subjects, Brahma went away to His own abode. When Brahma went away, having ordered his son to create progeny and subjects, Manu, took that seriously in his heart and began to do that work. In due time, he had two powerful sons named Priyavrata and Uttanapada and three lovely beautiful daughters endowed with various good qualities. Hear the names of the three daughters. The first daughter, the purifier of the world, was named Akuti; the second was named Devahuti and the third was Prasuti. The first daughter Akuti was married to the Maharsi Ruchi; the second was married to the Prajapati Karddama;
and the third was married to the Prajapati Daksa. And know that all the beings in this world had their origin from this last daughter. Now hear the progeny of these three daughters and the Maharsis respectively By Maharsi Ruchi was born one son named Yajha, in the womb of Akuti; he is the part of the Bhagavan Adi Purusa Visnu; by Maharsi Karddama, in the womb of Devahuti was born the Bhagavan Kapila Deva, the famous author of the S'ankhya S'astra; and in the womb of Prasuti, by the Prajapati Daksa were born some daughters only; know that the Devas, men, beasts and birds were all created by this Prajapati Daksa. These offsprings were the first promulgators in the work of creation. In the Svayambhuva Manvantara, the powerful Bhagavan Yajha, by the help of the Deva named Yama, saved his mother's Father Manu from the attacks of the Raksasas; and the great Lord of the Yogis, the Bhagavan Kapila, remained for a while in his Asrama and gave spiritual instructions to his mother Devahuti, by which Avidya could be at once destroyed, and disclosed his S'ankhya S'astra, the great work on the Spiritual Philosophy and the special Dhyana Yoga in all its details and finally went for Samadhi to the Asrama of Pulaha where the great Deva Samkhya charya lives up to today. Oh! I bow down to the great Yogacharya, the Bhagavan Kapila Deva, the Fructifier of all desires, the more remembrance of Whose Name makes easily the Yogi realise the meaning of the Samkhya Jhana. The sins are immediately destroyed of those that hear or read the holy anecdote of the progeny of the daughters of Manu. O Child! Now I describe to you the progeny of the sons of Svayambhuva Manu. Hear attentively. The hearing of which will enable one to enter into the highest place. Now is being described the history about the progeny of those who formed those Dvipas (islands) Varsas(countries) and oceans for the welfare and happiness of all the creation and for the use of them. Hear.
Here ends the Third Chapter of the Eighth Book on the description of the family of Manu in S'ri Mad Devi Bhagavatam, the Maha
Puranam, of 18,000 verses, by Maharsi Veda Vyasa.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 23837, revision 73379 (2016-07-03T03:12:17Z). English is Swami Vijñanananda’s complete 1921–23 public-domain translation, controlled against the archival OCR and its chapter page at https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk08ch03.htm. Historic spelling and transliteration are lightly normalized; no verse-by-verse alignment is asserted.