Kūrma Mahā Purana
13 - The Progeny of Daksha’s Daughters (Khyati and others)
This, topic has been described in KP elsewhere also, vide supra Ch. 8. 11-30, and infra I.14.54-64, 1.16. This part of creation is found (sometimes practically in the same words, in various Purānas e.g. VP. I. 15.9-154, Bh.P. VI. 6.1-45, AP. 18.27 ff and ch. 19 to mention a few.
Sūta said:
1. Lakşhmi, the beloved of Nārāyana, was born of Khyati and Bhrugu. Their sons Lords Dhätri and Vidhatri were the auspicious (blessed) sons-in-law of Meru.
2. Ayati and Niyati were the daughters of the noble souled Meru. They married Dhätri and Vidhätri and two sons were born to them.
3. They were Prāna and Mrukandu. Mārkandeya was Mrukandu’s son. Vedaśhiras was the brilliant son of Prāna.
4. Sambhūti bore the son Pūrņamása to Marichi as well as four daughters endowed with all auspicious characteristics.
5. Tuşhti was the eldest. Then came Vrusti, Krushti and Apachiti. The two sons of Pūrņamāsa were Virajas and Parvata.
6-10. Kşhama bore the following sons to Prajapati Pulaha viz. Kardama, the greatest of them, Sahişhnu an excellent sage. The younger of them was also an ascetic who wiped off all sins through penance.
Anasūyā gave birth to sinless sons to Atri. They were Soma, Durvāsas and the Yogin Dattatreya.
Smruti, endowed with all good and auspicious characteristics, gave birth to Sinīväli, Kuhū, Räkā and Anumati from Angiras-Holy lord Pulastya begot Dambhoji of Priti.
In the previous birth, in Svayambhuva Manvantara, he was Agastya and was remembered as such, as well as another son Devabahu. He had a daughter named Dvitiya (or v.1. Sannati but referred to as ‘Santati’ in the next verse).
11. Santati gave birth to sixty thousand sons from Kratu. All of them were of sublimated sexuality and are called Ba(Va) lakhilyas.
12-13. Vasişhtha procreated seven sons of his wife Urjā, as well as a daughter named Puņdarīkākṣha endowed with every elegance of beauty. The seven sons of great prowess were Rajas, Mätra (v.l. Uha), Urdhvabāhu, Savana, Ananga, Sutapas and Shukra.
14. Svähà bore three dignified sons of great prowess, O Brahmanas, to Vahni (fire), the son of Brahma and of the form of Rudra.
15. They were Påvaka, Pavamāna and Shuchiragni or Suchi. The fire produced by attrition is called Pavamāna, the fire from lightning is called as Påvaka.
16-17. What burns and shines in the Sun is called Shuchiragni. Their further progeny was forty-five in number. They, along with Pavamana, Payaka, Shuchi and he who was the father of these three, are glorified as the “Forty-nine Fires.”
18. All of them are said to be ascetics. All have shares in the oblations offered in sacrifices. All are stated to be of the nature of Rudra, with the forehead marked by the three Tripundra lines.
19-20. Manes (Pitrus) viz. Ayajvana (non-performers of sacrifices) and Yajvăna (performers of sacrifices) are the sons of god Brahma. They are respectively classed as Agnishvāttas (non-possessors of fire) and Barhişhads (possessors of fire). Svadha bore them two daughters Mena and Dhariņi (v.l. Vaitariņi).
Both of them were expounders of Brahman (or the Vedas) and experts in Yogic meditation.
21. Menā gave birth to Mainäka and Krauńcha bis younger brother. Ganga the sole sanctifier of all the worlds, was born of Himavăn.
22. Through the power of the fire of his Yoga, he obtained Goddess Maheśhvari as his daughter. The excellent great glory of the goddess has been precisely described before.
23. Dhāriņi, with face resembling a lotus, was the wife of king Meru. The lords Dhātri and Vidhātri were both the sons-in-law of Meru.
24. This lineage of the daughters of Daksha has been recounted to you by me just now. Now listen to and understand the creation of Manu.
Summary of chapter 13 of the Kūrma Mahā Purana is as follows:
Sūta details the glorious lineages originating from the daughters of Daksha and Khāti. From Khāti and Maharshi Bhṛgu was born Goddess Lakshmī, the eternal consort of Nārāyaṇa, alongside two sons, Dhātā and Vidhātā, who married Āyatī and Niyati, the daughters of Mount Meru, producing Prāṇa and Mṛkaṇḍu. Marīchi's wife Sambhūti bore Pūrṇamāsa and daughters Tushti, Vṛshṭi, Kṛshṭi, and Apachiti; Pulaha's wife Kshamā bore Kardama; and Anasūyā bore to Atri Maharshi three sacred sons—Chandra, Durvāsas, and Dattātreya. Angiras and Smṛti produced Sinīvālī, Rākā, and Anumati; Pulastya and Prīti gave birth to Dambhoshni; Kratu and Santati produced sixty thousand Vālakhilya ascetics; and Vashishṭha and Ūrjā brought forth the seven great Ṛshis. Svāhā and Agni produced the three sacred fires—Pavamāna, Pāvaka, and Śuchi—which expanded into the forty-nine fires. Furthermore, Svadhā and the Pitṛs gave birth to Menā and Dhāriṇī; Menā married Himavān and became the mother of Maināka, Krauncha, Gangā, and Devī Parvatī, laying the sacred ancestral foundation of the universe.