Chapter
15
King
Prithu's Appearance and Coronation
(13) He was thus
crowned the Mahârâja; exquisitely dressed and
fully ornamented he together with his nicely jeweled wife
Arci appeared like a fire beyond compare.
Chapter
16
King
Prithu Extolled
(2) 'We are not able to
fully describe the glories of him who as the foremost
Godhead descended out of his own mercy - and although he
appeared from the body of Vena, do his glories bewilder
the minds of the foremost speakers.
Chapter
17
Mahârâja
Prithu Becomes Angry at the Earth
(1) Maitreya said: 'The
son of king Vena thus to his qualities and actions
glorified as a form of the Supreme Lord, pleased those
who spoke with gifts, also himself offering with all
respect and prayer.
(16) Seeing the king
coming after her with his weapons taken up, it ran
randomly in all the four directions, fleeing hither and
thither in between the space of heaven and earth.
Chapter
18
Mahârâja
Prithu Milks the Earth
(23-24)
Cattle
producing a calf to the bull-carrier of Lord Shiva
[Nandi] milked in the pot of the wilderness the
milk of green grasses, to the lion did the other sharp
toothed animals, the predators, take out the flesh of
other beings and to the calf for Garuda took the birds
into the pot of their own body the moving as also the
nonmoving living beings.
Chapter
19
King
Prthu's One Hundred Horse Sacrifices
(21) Being driven after
him by Âtri, had he, angered, fixed an arrow, but
the self-reliant Indra who again gave up the horse and
the apparel, kept himself out of reach.
Chapter
20:
Lord
Vishnu's Appearance in the Sacrificial Arena of
Mahârâja Prithu
(18) King Indra,
ashamed of his own actions then lovingly touched his
feet; embracing him he [Prithu] of course gave up
his anger.
