Adhyaya 79 — The Vaivasvata Manvantara: Classes of Devas, the Seven Sages, and Manu’s Nine Sons
इक्ष्वाकुर्नाभगश्चैव धृष्टः शर्यातिरेव च ।
नरिष्यन्तश्च विख्यातो नाभागारिष्ट एव च ॥
ikṣvākur nābhagaś caiva dhṛṣṭaḥ śaryātir eva ca |
nariṣyantaś ca vikhyāto nābhāgāriṣṭa eva ca ||
ഇക്ഷ്വാകുവും നാഭഗനും; ധൃഷ്ടനും ശര്യാതിയും; യശസ്സുള്ള നരിഷ്യന്തനും; കൂടാതെ നാഭാഗ-ആരിഷ്ടനും.
Purāṇic genealogy is not mere history-listing; it legitimizes dharmic kingship by rooting rulers in a sacral chronology tied to Manu.
Vaṃśa (genealogies) and Vaṃśānucarita (accounts of dynasties) within the broader Manvantara narrative.
The solar-line associations (notably Ikṣvāku) symbolically connect rulership with ‘solar’ order—regularity, law, and visible dharma.