The esoteric secret of Śiva - Verse 30
Linga Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 1 · Verse 7.30
Sanskrit Original
वाराहः साम्प्रतं ज्ञेयः सप्तमान्तरतः क्रमात। योगावतारांश च विभोः शिष्याणां संततिस तथा।।
vārāhaḥ sāmprataṃ jñeyaḥ saptamāntarataḥ kramāt| yogāvatārāṃś ca vibhoḥ śiṣyāṇāṃ saṃtatis tathā||
Sūta said: The current kalpa in the seventh manvantara is known as Vārāha. Now listen to the yogic incarnations of the lord and their line of disciples in due order, in all the kalpas and manvantaras. In the first Kali of Svāyambhuva Manu they were (1) Śveta, (2) Sutāra, (3) Madana, (4) Suhotra, (5) Kaṅkaṇa, (6) Logākṣi, (7) Jaigīṣavya, (8) Dadhivāhana, (9) Ṛṣabha, (10) Ugra, (11) Atri, (12) Subālaka, (13) Gautama, (14) Vedaśīrṣa. (15) Gokarṇa, (16) Guhāvāsin, (17) Śikhaṇḍabhṛt, (18) Jaṭāmālin, (19) Aṭṭahāsa, (20) Dāruka, (21) Lāṅguli. (22) Mahākāvya, (23) Śūlin, (24) Daṇḍin, (25) Muṇḍīśvara, (26) Sahiṣṇu, (27) Somaśarmā, (28) Lakulīśa. O men of holy rites, the incarnations as Yogācāryas of the lord in all the cycles of four ages in the Vaivasvata manvantara have been recounted (as twenty-eight).