Chapter
19:
King
Yayâti Achieves Liberation: the Goats of
Lust.
(20) As one sees them,
as one aspires them should one, knowing them to be
temporal, not even think of them nor actually enjoy them
nor want the prolongation of material life and the
forgetfulness about the real self connected to it; he who
really knows this is a self-realized soul [see also
B.G. 2:
13].'
Chapter
20:
The
Dynasty of Pûru up to Bharata
(8-9) Once Dushmanta
went hunting and arrived at the âs'rama of Kanva.
When he came there saw he a woman sitting who shone in
her own beauty like the goddess of fortune. Seeing her he
directly felt himself strongly drawn towards her, such a
manifest divine beauty of a woman, and surrounded by some
soldiers addressed he that best of all ladies.
(19) Him,
insurmountable in his strength as a part of a plenary
portion of the Lord, did she, the best of women, take
with her going for her husband.
Chapter
21:
The
Dynasty of Bharata: the Story of Rantideva
(3-5) Living on what
fate provided took he [Rantideva] pleasure in
distributing to others whatever grain of food he had.
Always penniless he with all his family members lived
very sober and had to suffer a lot. One morning when
forty-eight days had passed and he even was without
drinking water, happened to arrive different foodstuffs,
prepared with ghee and milk, and water. With the family
all shaky of suffering thirst and hunger right at that
time arrived a brahmin guest of Rantideva who also wanted
to eat.
Chapter
22:
The
Descendants of Ajamidha: the Pândavas and
Kauravas
(18-19) The
Soma-dynasty lost in Kali-yuga will [by him] at
the beginning of the next Satya-yuga be reestablished.
Bâhlika [S'ântanu's brother]
generated Somadatta and from him there were Bhûri,
Bhûris'ravâ and next the son S'ala.
S'ântanu begot in his wife Gangâ the
selfrealized great devotee and scholar Bhîshma
[see also 1.9], the best of all defenders of the
dharma.
