The race of Priyavrata - Verse 61
Brahmanda Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 14 · Verse 61
Sanskrit Original
सोभिषिच्यर्षभः पुत्रं महाप्रव्रज्यया स्थितः। हिमाह्वं दक्षिणं वर्षं भरताय न्यवेदयत।।
sobhiṣicyarṣabhaḥ putraṃ mahāpravrajyayā sthitaḥ| himāhvaṃ dakṣiṇaṃ varṣaṃ bharatāya nyavedayat||
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.