Daśeraka

Daśeraka

Daśeraka is a country of Bhārata-varsha, one of the countries of the Kirāta jātis. The Brahma Purāṇa names it in its account of the lands and peoples of Bhārata, which Brahmā (Padmaja) gives to Bhṛgu and the munis.

Among the countries of the Kirāta jātis

Brahmā tells the munis that Bhārata-varsha is the karma-bhūmi, the land where karma bears fruit; svarga and naraka are the lands where its fruits are reaped. Even the suras and asuras long to live there and yearn, “When shall we see holy Bhārata?” When the munis ask for the whole account of that holy land, he speaks of its nine parts and then names its countries, region by region: the middle region, the countries of the kshatriya, vaiśya and śūdra jātis, the countries of the Kirāta jātis, the north, the east, the south, the western Aparānta, the Vindhya region and the countries on the mountains.

Among them he names the countries of the Kirāta jātis. In the order the Purāṇa gives them, they are Kāmboja, Barbara, Laukika, Vīra, Tushāra, Prahlāva, Ādhāyata, Nara, Ātreya, Bharadvāja, Pushkala, Daśeraka, Lampaka, Śunaśśoka, Kulika, Jāṅgala, Aushadhi and Calacandra. Daśeraka stands after Pushkala and before Lampaka. After them he names the countries in the north of Bhārata.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 27

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 27