The esoteric secret of Śiva - Verse 32
Linga Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 1 · Verse 7.32
Sanskrit Original
सुहोत्रः कङ्कणश्चैव लोकाक्षिर मुनिसत्तमाः। जैगीषव्यो महातेजा भगवान दधिवाहनः।।
suhotraḥ kaṅkaṇaścaiva lokākṣir munisattamāḥ| jaigīṣavyo mahātejā bhagavān dadhivāhanaḥ||
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).