Narratives from the Kalki Purāṇa
The Kalki Purāṇa holds many narratives. The pages below retell them one by one in simple English, each with the chapters it comes from.
Ananta Muni tells Kalki and the assembled kings how he lived a whole life of dream and learned the power of Vishṇumāyā, and a paramahansa explains it.
Battle of BhallāṭanagaraKalki marches on Bhallāṭanagara, where the Vishṇu-bhakta king Śaśidhvaja fights him, carries him to the palace, and gives him his daughter Ramā.
Battle of KīkaṭapuraBhagavān Kalki's first campaign: he defeats King Jina at Kīkaṭapura, and Māyādevī, a power of Lakshmī, merges into him.
Kalki CharitraKalki Charitra is the account of Bhagavān Kalki, the tenth avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, from his birth in Śambhala to his return to Vaikuṇṭha.
Kalki DigvijayaBhagavān Kalki marches with Maru, Devāpi, Viśākhayūpa and Dharma to end the rule of Kali, and kills the twin dānavas Koka and Vikoka.
Kalki and PadmāvatīBhagavān Kalki goes to Siṃhala Dvīpa, meets Padmāvatī at the lake of Kārumatī, marries her, and brings her home to Śambhala.
Kalki Returns to VaikuṇṭhaAfter a thousand years in Śambhala, Bhagavān Kalki leaves the earth at the devas' request and rises to Vaikuṇṭha from the bank of the Gaṅgā.
Kalki and KuṭhodarīBhagavān Kalki fights the giant rākshasī Kuṭhodarī, is swallowed with his army, cuts his way out, and then kills her son Karaṃja with the Brahmāstra.
Maru and Devāpi at HaridvāraAt Haridvāra, Maru and Devāpi tell the solar and lunar dynasties to Bhagavān Kalki, and Kṛtayuga appears as a brahmacārī.
Rukmiṇī Vrata in the Kalki PurāṇaParaśurāma teaches Rāmā, wife of Bhagavān Kalki, the Rukmiṇī Vrata, and after four years she bears two sons, Meghamāla and Bāhuka.
Sulocanā Vishakanyā MokshaBhagavān Kalki enters Kāñcanīpura alone, frees Sulocanā from her śāpa, and then places kings across the land.