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Brahmanda Purana — Prakriya Pada, Shloka 1

युगप्रजालक्षणम् ऋषिप्रवरवर्णनं च

Yuga–Prajā-Lakṣaṇa and the Enumeration of Eminent Ṛṣis

Devanagari script

इति श्रीब्रह्माण्डे महापुराणे वायुप्रोक्ते पूर्वभागे द्वितीये ऽनुषङ्गपादे युगप्रजालक्षणमृषिप्रवरवर्णनं च नाम द्वात्रिंशत्तमो ऽध्यायः सूत उवाच ऋषिकाणां सुताश्चापि विज्ञेया ऋषिपुत्रकाः / ब्राह्यणानां प्रवक्तारो नामतश्च निबोधत

Transliteration

iti śrībrahmāṇḍe mahāpurāṇe vāyuprokte pūrvabhāge dvitīye 'nuṣaṅgapāde yugaprajālakṣaṇamṛṣipravaravarṇanaṃ ca nāma dvātriṃśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ sūta uvāca ṛṣikāṇāṃ sutāścāpi vijñeyā ṛṣiputrakāḥ / brāhyaṇānāṃ pravaktāro nāmataśca nibodhata

Translation

Thus, in the Śrī Brahmāṇḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the former section spoken by Vāyu, in the second Anuṣaṅgapāda, is the thirty-second chapter called “The marks of the yugas and of beings, and the description of the pravaras of the ṛṣis.” Sūta said: The sons of the ṛṣis too are to be known as ṛṣiputrakas; learn, by name, the expounders among the Brāhmaṇas.

Word by Word

इतिthus

श्रीब्रह्माण्डेin the Śrī-Brahmāṇḍa (Purāṇa)

महापुराणेin the Mahāpurāṇa

वायुप्रोक्तेspoken by Vāyu

पूर्वभागेin the former part

द्वितीयेin the second

अनुषङ्गपादेin the Anuṣaṅga-pāda section

युगप्रजालक्षणमृषिप्रवरवर्णनम्(the chapter titled) ‘description of the characteristics of yugas and lineages, and of the foremost sages’

चand

नामnamed

द्वात्रिंशत्तमःthirty-second

अध्यायःchapter

सूतःSūta

उवाचsaid

ऋषिकाणाम्of the female sages (ṛṣikās)

सुताःsons

चand

अपिalso

विज्ञेयाःshould be known

ऋषिपुत्रकाःsons of sages

ब्राह्मणानाम्of the Brāhmaṇas

प्रवक्तारःexpounders/speakers

नामतःby name

चand

निबोधतlearn/understand