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  1. Ruchi Prajapati abandons the idea of \u200b\u200ba householder’s house: Ruchi is advised by his fathers to discern between knowledge and ignorance and perform karma.<\/li>\n
  2. The old Ruchi Prajapati, feeling sad because he could not get a virgin, worships Brahma. Brahma appears to him and tells him to worship his fathers: Ruchi’s hymn to his fathers.<\/li>\n
  3. The fathers give Ruchi a direct vision: Ruchi is blessed by his fathers to have a son who will enjoy the status of a manvant.<\/li>\n
  4. A nymph named Pramlocha, who rises from the middle of the river, prays to him to marry her daughter Malini: Ruchi and Malini’s marriage: Birth of Rauchya Manu.<\/li>\n
  5. Beginning of Bhautya Manvantara: A sage named Bhuti performs penance for the sake of progeny. Bhuti, who has set out for her brother’s sacrifice, finds a disciple named Shanti. Assigned for the protection of fire: The fire in the fire hall is extinguished: A hymn to the peaceful fire<\/li>\n
  6. The fire god appeared and fulfilled the prayer of fire: A son named Bhautiyya was born to the Bhuti: The fire blazed as before in the sacrificial fire: The story of the hearing of Bhautyamanvant and Sarvamanvant<\/li>\n
  7. The beginning of the royal hymn and the story of the Martanda form: The birth of the Daksha couple from Brahma: The appearance of the Supreme God, the Sun, in the form of Vyahritis, at the time of piercing the universe<\/li>\n
  8. The glory of the Sun god who appeared in the form of Chando: Aditya shone in the form of Rigyajuh-Sama at the times of morning-noon-evening<\/li>\n
  9. The sun’s hymn by Brahma: The Sun god After destroying the Tejapunja, Brahma created the universe<\/li>\n
  10. Description of the lineage of Kashyapa Prajapati: Aditi sings the hymn of Divakara<\/li>\n
  11. Aditya was born from the womb of Aditi: The sun was pleased and gave strength to the gods to subdue the demons: The demons became invincible at the sight of Martanda<\/li>\n
  12. Sangya Devi, unable to bear the fierce radiance of her husband, went to her father Vishwakarma: As per her father’s advice, she left there and went to the northern Kurudesa and performed penance in the form of an Ashwini: Vishwakarma placed the sun on a spinning wheel and diminished its radiance<\/li>\n
  13. Vishwakarma’s hymn to the sun, uttered with devotion while holding the image of the sun<\/li>\n
  14. The sun took the form of a horse and was in the form of an Ashwini Having Sanjnadevi: The sun has assigned his sons to various powers<\/li>\n
  15. The glory of King Rajyavardhana: During the time of the Abhyanjan, the queen saw the sign of old age on her husband’s head and was dismayed: The king wanted to give up the kingdom out of renunciation: The subjects worshipped the sun to increase the life of King Rajyavardhana: The hymn of the sun by Vipra<\/li>\n
  16. By the grace of the sun, Rajyavardhana attained long life and enjoyed the kingdom: The king’s penance so that the subjects who performed penance for him would attain long life: The subjects’ longevity increased by the grace of the gods<\/li>\n
  17. The expansion of the solar dynasty: Manu obtains a virgin named Ila: A virgin attains manhood through the offerings of the gods of Mitra Varuna<\/li>\n
  18. Prishadhropakhyana: The son of Manu Prishadhra went hunting and killed the sage Homadhenu: The sage’s son cursed the king to become a Shudra<\/li>\n
  19. History of Nabhaga: Nabhaga wanted to marry a Vaishya girl: His father, afraid of her deviance, forcibly married her when she did not agree.<\/li>\n
  20. Nabhaga, who became a Vaishya by marrying a Vaishya girl, adopted the Vaishya religion: A son named Bhalandana was born to him: He wanted to rule the kingdom and surrendered to the sage Nipa: Being endowed with semen from the offerings of the sage, he conquered the kingdom with his knowledge and presented it to his father: Then the Vaishya girl told her husband the story of her past lives.<\/li>\n
  21. The Vaishya girl told her about the curse that had occurred in her past lives and prayed to him to take over the kingdom since the Vaishya caste had retired<\/li>\n
  22. Nabhaga finally abandoned the kingdom: Bhalandana’s reign: Bhalandana had a son named Vatsaprithi: Vatsaprithi married Saunanda: Vatsaprithi killed the demon Kujrumbha’s wife Sunanda and ruined her: The story of Bhalandana and Vatsaprithi<\/li>\n
  23. From the children born to Sunanda, five sons were born to the family, including Khanitra: Khanitra ruled with great glory: The ministers of Jnatiraja, who could not bear Khanitra’s rule, practiced witchcraft and suffered misfortune themselves<\/li>\n
  24. Khanitra, learning that his brothers’ ministers had died, performed penance out of remorse<\/li>\n
  25. The story of Kshupara: Kshupa heard of the religious life of his ancestor Kshupara and acted accordingly: He had a grandson named Vivimsa born: Vivimsha Charitra<\/li>\n
  26. The story of Khaninetra: Hearing the conversation between two animals that were unable to hunt and had many offspring, Khaninetra performed penance on the banks of the Gomati river, wishing for a son.<\/li>\n
  27. The story of Karandhama: Indra was pleased and blessed Khaninetra with a son named Balashwa: King Balashwa, depressed by the attack of powerful enemies, placed his hands on his mouth and blew on the battlefield: Then a vast army was born and the king won victory.<\/li>\n
  28. The birth of Avikshitha to King Karandhama: Avikshitha forcibly abducted his concubine in a swayamvara.<\/li>\n
  29. The enemies, unable to tolerate the virginity, fought against the solitary Avikshitha: The enemies gradually became defeated and Avikshitha was captured in an unrighteous war.<\/li>\n
  30. The epilogue of the story told by the Dharma birds to Jaimini: The fruit of the hearing of the Sri Markandeya Purana<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"featured_media":949,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-943","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bharathadarshana.com\/kan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bharathadarshana.com\/kan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bharathadarshana.com\/kan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bharathadarshana.com\/kan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bharathadarshana.com\/kan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}