The glory of Bhajamana race and the story of Syamantaka gem

Vaishampayana said: О king, Bhajaman the son of the Andhaka wsa the foremost of the warriors and was known by the name of VidUratha. Rajadhideva was the son of VidUratha.

Rajadhideva had eight valorous sons known by the names of Datta, Atidetta, Sonasva, Svetavahana, Sami, Dandasarma, Dandasatru and Satrujit, besides two daughter known by the names of Sravana and Sravistha.

Pratiksatra was the son of Sami. Svayanbhoja was the son of Pratiksatra. Hrdika was the son of Svayambhuva.

All the sons of Hrdika were great warriors. Krtavarma, was the eldest of them all. Satadharma was the middle son.

At the words of the Devarsi Cyavana Satadhanva had four sons named Bhisaga, Vaitarna, Sudanta and Vidanta. Besides the sons, he had two daughters known by names of Kamada and Kamadantika.

Devan was the learned son of Kambala barhisa. The valorous Asmanja and Nasamauja were also born to him.

Andhaka had besides Kukura and others three sons named Sudamstra, CarurUpa and Krishna. All the three of them were given over by Andhaka to childless Asamauja.

Thus I have described about these as well as other kings of Andhaka race. This race had been quite vast, there is no doubt about it.

Krausta of the yadu race had Gandharl and Madri as his wives. Gandharl’s son was known as the valorous Anamitra, while the names of MadrVs sons were Yudhajit and Devamidhavan.

Aparajit and Anamitra, were the conquerers of the enemies. Nighna was the son of Anamitra. Nighna had two sons named Prasena and Satrajit. Both of them conquered the enemy army.

By traditions, while living in Dvaraka, Prasena got the gem named Syamantaka. Satrajit the brother of Prasena, was dear to Suryanardyana very much.

Satrajit was the best of the warriors, once, at the end of the night he went to the sea shore, for talking a bath and adoring the sungod.

While he was worshipping, the sungod, appeared suddenly before him. At that point of time, the sungod was established in the centre of his illuminating and resplendent circle, as a result of which, his form was not clearly visible. Finding the sungod standing before him, the king said to him.

“O lord of the resplendent planets, I visualise you daily in the sky in form of a sundisc and in case you appear before me in the same form, then what is the speciality in the present situation?”

On hearing this, the lord Suryanardyana took out the garland of Syamantaka gem and placed it separately at a lonely place.

The king then found the sungod in his pleasent form, which delighted him. Then he had a talk with SUryanaraypna for a ghadi (twenty two minutes).

After the conclusion of the conversation, when Suryanardyana was about to get back, then Satrajit said to him, “O lord, the Syamantaka gem which illumines you always may please be given over to me.”

At this lord suryanardyana gave away the Syanamtaka gem to the king, who wearing the same entered the city.

Then the people rushed after the king saying, “The sungod is moving in the city.” In this way surprising the people of the city, the king entered his dwelling place.

Thereafter the king Satrajit out of his love for his brother, gave away the divine gem to Prasenjit.

The said gem whenever was kept in the house of the people of the Vrsni or Anadhaka Variisas, it dropped the rain of gold. In that country the cloud dropped timely rains and there was no danger of the spreading of any disease or epidemic.

ShriKrishna once desired to get the Syamantaka gem from Prasenajit, but he refused to give away the same. Though lord Krishna had been all powerful but he never tried to usurp the same forcibly from Prasinajit.

Prasinajit, once wearing the said gem around his neck, went out in the forest for hunting, but was killed, because of the same gem, by a wild lion in the forest.

Thereafter, the immensely valorous Jambavan — the king of bears, killed the lion who was running. He carrying the gem with him returned to his abode in a cave.

At the killing of Prasena, all snis and Andhaka people, thought that Prasenajit could have been killed by Shri Krishna for the sake of the gem.

Though ShriKrishna had not done so or killed Prasenajit, still the people were doubtful about the same. Therefore he resolved to get back the gem, some how. Then he entered the forest.

He made enquires from the dependable people, where Prasena had gone for hunting. His footprints were spotted.

Following the lead of the footprints, when lord Krishna felt tired, then he spotted the Vindhya mountains besides a huge bear Rksavan.

Lord Krishna then found Prasenajit and his horse lying dead there. But the gem which was desired by the lord, could not the traced there. Soon thereafter, he spotted a headead him lying at a distance from the body of Prasena. From foot prints of the killer of the lion, it could be evident that the lion had been killed by a bear. Madhava then started search for the cave of the bear, on the basis of its footprints.

О king, Shri Krishna at that time reached the cave of the bear and heard a female voice from within the cave. He felt as if a midwife had been asking the child of the bear, while playing with the gem, not to weep.

The mid-wife said: О my child, the lion killed Prasenajit, while the lion was killed by Jambavan. Now you donot weep. This Syamantaka gem now belongs to you alone.”

When the words of the mid-wife were clearly heard by ShriKrishna, then he leaving Balarama and other Yadava warriors at the mouth of the cave he himself silently entered in the cave and found Jambavan there.

Vasudeva ShriKrishna kept on fighting with Jambavan with the strength of his arms, for twenty one days.

When ShriKrishna, did not return from the cave for long, then Balarama returned to Dvaraka and informed the people, about the demise of Krishna.

ShriKrishna on the other hand, ultimately overpowered Jambavan, married the dear daughter of Rksaraja, known by the name of Jambavatl and in order to establish his innocence he carried the same Syamantaka gem with him.

Thereafter, ShriKrishna requesting Jambavan humbly came out of the cave and proceed on to Dvaraka with grace.

Thus carrying the gem with him, lord Krishna, established his innocence in the full assebly of Satvatas. Thereafter he handed over the gem to Satrajit.

Lord Krishna, the destroyer of the enemies, in order to remove the blemish (of usurping the gem from Prasena) got the said gem from Jambavan and washed out the blemish on him.

Satrajit had ten wives and he got a hundred sons from them. Three out of the ten were quite famous. The eldest was known as Bhangakara. The second one was known as Vatapati and the third one was known as Upasvavavan.

Similarly Satyabhama — the gem of the women, Vratini and Prasvapini were the three daughters of Satajit, out of these Styabhama was married to Krishna.

Bhangakara had a son named Samaksa and Nareya. Both of them, because of their virtues and beauty were considered to be the best of all the humans.

(Now the second queen Madrl of Krosta known as Yudhajit’s progeny is being (described.) Yudhajit — the son of Madrl had a son named Prsni, who had two sons named Svaphakala and Chitraka.

Gandini — the daughter of the king of kail was married to Svaphalaka. The father of Gandini, made his daughter to donate a cow daily to Brahmanas.

From Gandini the immensely virtuous Akriira was born, who was well known as an extremely learned one. He performed several yajnas giving enormous daksinas.

Besides Akriira, Gandini had other sons too known as Upasanga, Madgu, Mrdur, Arimejaya, Aviksipa, Upeksa, Satrughna, Arimardana, Dharmadhrka, Yatidharma, Grdhra, Bhoja, Andhaha, Avaha and Prativaha, besides a beautiful daughter known as Varangana.

She came to be known as the chief queen of the Samba country. The name of her beautiful daughter, who attracted the minds of the people was Vasundhara.

О son of Kuru race, AkrUru had two sons from his queen Ugrasenl, who were known by the names Prasena and Upadeva.

Citraka — the uncle of Akriira, had two wives known as Sravana and Avistha. He got twelve sons from them, who came to be known as Prthu, Viprthu, Asvagriva, Asvabd.hu, Suparsvaka, Gavesana, Aristanemi Asva, Sudharma, Dharmabhrta, Subd.hu, hahubahu.

A person, who goes through the story of false blemish of ShriKrishna, all his false blemishes vanish in no time.

Here ends Chapter 38, of Harivansa Parva of the Harivansa Purana, a khilabhaga of the epic of Mahabharata, relating to the glory of Bhajamana race and story of Syamantaka gem.(Vrs.l-58, P.T.= 2008)

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