The race of Priyavrata - Verse 60
Brahmanda Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 14 · Verse 60
Sanskrit Original
ऋषभं पार्थिवश्रेष्ठं सर्वक्षत्रस्य पूर्वजम। ऋषभाद्भरतो जज्ञे वीरः पुत्रशताग्रजः।।
ṛṣabhaṃ pārthivaśreṣṭhaṃ sarvakṣatrasya pūrvajam| ṛṣabhādbharato jajñe vīraḥ putraśatāgrajaḥ||
I shall recount the procreation by Nābhi in the sub-continent called Hima. Understand it. Nābhi begot a highly lustrous son, of Meru-Devī. He was Ṛṣabha, the most excellent of all kings. He was the eldest of all Kṣatriyas. Heroic Bharata was born of Ṛṣabha. He was the eldest of hundred sons. Ṛṣabha crowned his son and engaged himself in Mahāpravrajyā (the great migration of renunciation i.e. journey or pilgrimage till death). He allotted the southern sub-continent named Hima to Bharata.