Desirous of relieving me of my burden Jamadagni's son Rāma, out of anger, divested me, for twenty-one times, of the Kshatriyas (46).
Raising up a pillar of victory, Bhrigu's son Rāma propitiated me with royal blood at the obsequial rites of his father and then communicated it to Kashyapa (47).
Filled with a bad stench coming out of fat, flesh and bones and saturated with the blood of the Kshatriyas I appeared before Kashyapa like a youthful damsel in her course (48).
The Brāhmana saint Kashyapa then said to me:—“O earth, why art thou so depressed ? Why dost thou, being the wife of a heroe, observe the vow of humiliation” (49).
Thereat I said to Kashyapa, the Patriarch of the world:—“O Brāhman, the great Bhārgava has killed all my husbands (50).
I have been divested of all the powerful Kshatriyas who live on arms, and have lost my husband. I do not wish to carry on me empty cities (51).
Therefore, O Reverend Sir, confer upon me such a king as will be able to protect me abounding in villages and cities and engarlanded by oceans” (52).
Hearing my words the Omnipotent Lord said “let it be so.” Thereupon he gave me away to Manu, the king of men (53).
Thereupon obtaining the god-like kings of the Ikshāku race, originating from Manu, I, under the influence of powerful time, passed from the hands of one king to those of another (54).
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