Brahmapurāṇam

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Adhyāya	Chapter theme	Verses
Adhyāya 1	Setting of the recitation of the Purāṇa; creation of the world	56
Adhyāya 2	Descendants of Manu Svāyambhuva; creation by Dakṣa	57
Adhyāya 3	Creation of beings; descendants of Dakṣa	126
Adhyāya 4	Distribution of sovereignties; Pṛthu-episode	122
Adhyāya 5	Description of Manu-eras	64
Adhyāya 6	Story of Vivasvat and Sañjñā and their progeny	54
Adhyāya 7	The solar dynasty	109
Adhyāya 8	The solar dynasty (cont.)	95
Adhyāya 9	The origin of Soma, the abduction of Tārā, and the birth of Budha	36
Adhyāya 10	The lunar dynasty: Amāvasu branch	68
Adhyāya 11	The lunar dynasty (cont.): Branch of Āyu's younger sons	61
Adhyāya 12	The lunar dynasty (cont.): Story of Yayāti	51
Adhyāya 13	The lunar dynasty (cont.): The branches of Yayāti's sons	213
Adhyāya 14	The lunar dynasty (cont.): Genealogy of Kṛṣṇa	57
Adhyāya 15	Genealogy of the Bhojas and the Kukuras	62
Adhyāya 16	Genealogy of Vṛṣṇyandhakas; story of the Syamantaka-jewel	59
Adhyāya 17	Story of the Syamantaka-jewel (part 2)	40
Adhyāya 18	Description of Jambūdvīpa	62
Adhyāya 19	Description of Bhāratavarṣa	29
Adhyāya 20	Description of the six outer continents	99
Adhyāya 21	Description of the nether worlds	27
Adhyāya 22	Description of hells	50
Adhyāya 23	Description of the heavenly worlds; Viṣṇu and his Śakti	44
Adhyāya 24	Nārāyaṇa as Śiśumāra and the cycle of water	26
Adhyāya 25	Places of pilgrimage	86
Adhyāya 26	The dialogical setting for Brahman's narration	37
Adhyāya 27	Description of Bhāratavarṣa	80
Adhyāya 28	Description of Oṇḍradeśa; on worship of the sun and of Rāmeśvara	65
Adhyāya 29	On worship of the sun	61
Adhyāya 30	The sun as highest deity; his twelve-fold shape; Mitra's instruction to Nārada	92
Adhyāya 31	Various aspects of the sun; the 12 Ādityas; the 21 names of the sun	39
Adhyāya 32	The birth of Vivasvat; story of Sañjñā and Mārtaṇḍa	109
Adhyāya 33	On the origin of the sun; the 108 names of the sun	49
Adhyāya 34	Story of Satī; the birth of Umā	101
Adhyāya 35	Umā and Rudra: her devotion to Rudra; Śiva as a child and the crocodile	64
Adhyāya 36	Umā's self-choice; the wedding of Śiva and Umā	135
Adhyāya 37	Praise of Śiva by the gods	30
Adhyāya 38	Story of how Kāma was burnt by Śiva; Menā's reproach of Śiva	40
Adhyāya 39	Destruction of Dakṣa's sacrifice by Śiva	98
Adhyāya 40	Dakṣa's hymn of the thousand names of Śiva; the distribution of fever	137
Adhyāya 41	Description of Ekāmraka; worship of Śiva	93
Adhyāya 42	Description of Viraja; description of Utkala	49
Adhyāya 43	Story of Indradyumna	89
Adhyāya 44	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): The journey to the southern ocean	79
Adhyāya 45	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): The disappearance of Nīlamādhava	89
Adhyāya 46	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): Description of Puruṣottamakṣetra	30
Adhyāya 47	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): Construction of temple; Indradyumna's horse-sacrifice	98
Adhyāya 48	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): Indradyumna's anxiety	12
Adhyāya 49	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): Hymn to Viṣṇu	71
Adhyāya 50	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): Making of the images	59
Adhyāya 51	Story of Indradyumna (cont.): Boons granted by Viṣṇu	71
Adhyāya 52	Mārkaṇḍeya-episode: The end of the cosmic cycle	19
Adhyāya 53	Mārkaṇḍeya-episode (cont.): The Flood and the child in the fig-tree	43
Adhyāya 54	Mārkaṇḍeya-episode (cont.): Mārkaṇḍeya's vision	25
Adhyāya 55	Mārkaṇḍeya-episode (cont.): Mārkaṇḍeya's hymn to Viṣṇu	35
Adhyāya 56	Mārkaṇḍeya-episode (cont.): Viṣṇu's teachings	74
Adhyāya 57	Pañcatīrtha-Māhātmya	61
Adhyāya 58	Narasiṃha-Māhātmya	77
Adhyāya 59	Śvetamādhava-Māhātmya	91
Adhyāya 60	Matsyamādhava-Māhātmya; rules for bathing in the ocean	65
Adhyāya 61	Prescriptions concerning worship	57
Adhyāya 62	The ocean as holy place (Samudrasnānamāhātmya)	23
Adhyāya 63	Pañcatīrtha-Māhātmya (concluded). On auspicious dates	22
Adhyāya 64	On the importance of the month Jyeṣṭha	20
Adhyāya 65	Bathing festival of Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma, and Subhadrā	98
Adhyāya 66	Description of the car festival	23
Adhyāya 67	The installation-ceremony and its merit	81
Adhyāya 68	Description of Viṣṇu's world	77
Adhyāya 69	Puruṣottamakṣetra-Māhātmya	43
Adhyāya 70	Puruṣottamakṣetra-Māhātmya; Gautamī-Māhātmya	41
Adhyāya 71	Prehistory of Śiva's marriage with Pārvatī	42
Adhyāya 72	Account of the events at the wedding-ceremony	36
Adhyāya 73	Story fo Bali and Viṣṇu's three steps (Vāmana-Avatāra)	69
Adhyāya 74	Gaṇeśa's device to make Gautama bring down the Gaṅgā	87
Adhyāya 75	Gautama's hymn to Śiva	50
Adhyāya 76	The Gautamī Gaṅgā on earth	22
Adhyāya 77	Śiva's account of the Gautamī Gaṅgā	15
Adhyāya 78	Descent of the Bhāgīrathī Gaṅgā	77
Adhyāya 79	Story of Viṣṇu as boar lifting up the sacrifice	22
Adhyāya 80	Story of the pigeon couple and the hunter	92
Adhyāya 81	Story of Skanda's lust	22
Adhyāya 82	Story of the Kṛttikās and of Skanda's birth	16
Adhyāya 83	The completion of Bhauvana's ten horse-sacrifices	29
Adhyāya 84	Birth of Hanumat and his half-brother	20
Adhyāya 85	Story of Kaṇva's hunger	24
Adhyāya 86	Story of Yama neglecting his duty	50
Adhyāya 87	Story of Indra and Ahalyā	69
Adhyāya 88	Varuṇa as teacher of Janaka and Yājñavalkya	26
Adhyāya 89	Story of Vivasvat, the surrogated Chāyā, and the birth of the Aśvins	47
Adhyāya 90	Story of Garuḍa and the snake Maṇināga	36
Adhyāya 91	Story of Jābāli and the cows	12
Adhyāya 92	Story of Sanājjāta and his mother Mahī	49
Adhyāya 93	Story of Viśvāmitra and Indra	27
Adhyāya 94	Story of Śiva's devotee Śveta, who could not be taken away by Death	50
Adhyāya 95	Śukra (Uśanas) and the science of reviving the dead	32
Adhyāya 96	Indra and Brahmin-murder	27
Adhyāya 97	How Kubera lost his kingdom and became lord of the north	33
Adhyāya 98	Story of Agni and Jātavedas	22
Adhyāya 99	Story of Pṛthuśravas and his younger brother	12
Adhyāya 100	Story of Kaśyapa and his two wives Suparṇā and Kadrū	31
Adhyāya 101	Purūravas and Sarasvatī	20
Adhyāya 102	Brahman's incest	11
Adhyāya 103	Disturbance of Priyavrata's horse-sacrifice	12
Adhyāya 104	Story of Hariścandra, Rohita, and Śunaḥśepa	90
Adhyāya 105	Story of the (first) purchase of Soma	30
Adhyāya 106	Story of the origin and distribution of the nectar of immortality	58
Adhyāya 107	Story of Vṛddhagautama and the old maid	69
Adhyāya 108	Story of King Ila who became Ilā, the mother of Purūravas	123
Adhyāya 109	The destruction of Dakṣa's sacrifice; Viṣṇu's discus swallowed by Śiva	55
Adhyāya 110	Story of Dadhīci and his son Pippalāda	228
Adhyāya 111	The Prince as Serpent	86
Adhyāya 112	Śiva and the Mothers fighting against the demons	28
Adhyāya 113	The treacherous fifth head of Brahman	23
Adhyāya 114	Gaṇeśa and the obstacle at the Sattra-rite of the gods	25
Adhyāya 115	Śiva's help to Śeṣa against the demons	20
Adhyāya 116	Death as slaughterer at a sacrifice of sages	26
Adhyāya 117	Datta Ātreya and Śiva	20
Adhyāya 118	Story of the Rākṣasas Aśvattha and Pippala	32
Adhyāya 119	The plants and Soma	20
Adhyāya 120	The plants and Soma (cont.)	18
Adhyāya 121	Kaṭha and his special gift to his teacher Bharadvāja	26
Adhyāya 122	Stories of Dhanvantari and of Indra regaining his kingdom	105
Adhyāya 123	Story of Daśaratha and his dutiful son Rāma	217
Adhyāya 124	Story of Indra and Diti	140
Adhyāya 125	The emnity between Anuhrāda and Ulūka	56
Adhyāya 126	Competition between Agni and the waters	40
Adhyāya 127	The sacrificer kidnapped by a demon	64
Adhyāya 128	Story of Agni and Śiva's semen; the abuduction of Suvarṇā	84
Adhyāya 129	Stories about Indra	127
Adhyāya 130	Story of Agastya teaching Āpastamba	34
Adhyāya 131	Saramā and the Paṇis	57
Adhyāya 132	Story of Pippalā, Viśvāvasu's sister	9
Adhyāya 133	The demon born of the smoke at Bharadvāja's sacrifice	27
Adhyāya 134	The Rākṣasas and the magic woman Ajaikā Muktakeśī	16
Adhyāya 135	Story of Brahman, Viṣṇu, and Śiva's Liṅga	27
Adhyāya 136	Maudgalya and Viṣṇu	43
Adhyāya 137	Dispute between Lakṣmī and Poverty	41
Adhyāya 138	Story of Madhuchandas, family-priest of King Śaryāti	41
Adhyāya 139	Pailūṣa's `thirst' and the `sword of knowledge'	20
Adhyāya 140	Ātreya as Indra	39
Adhyāya 141	Pṛthu and the earth	30
Adhyāya 142	Meghahāsa and the gods	14
Adhyāya 143	Rāvaṇa and Śiva	17
Adhyāya 144	Ātreyī, Aṅgiras, and Agni (the fire)	27
Adhyāya 145	Discussion about the best way to liberation	14
Adhyāya 146	Story of Yayāti	45
Adhyāya 147	Viśvāmitra and the Apsarases	23
Adhyāya 148	Kāṇva's sarcrificial fire getting extinct during the offering	27
Adhyāya 149	Viṣṇu as Narasiṃha	19
Adhyāya 150	Jīgarti's life after death and his redemption by Śunaḥśepa	23
Adhyāya 151	Purūravas and Urvaśī	29
Adhyāya 152	The abduction of Tārā	42
Adhyāya 153	Prācīnabarhis' long reign and his obtaining a son from Śiva	16
Adhyāya 154	The repudiation of Sītā	34
Adhyāya 155	The earth as sacrificial gift turning into a lioness and exchanged for a cow	14
Adhyāya 156	Viṣṇu's fight with the demons	11
Adhyāya 157	Rāma and the Liṅgas	31
Adhyāya 158	The Āṅgirasas and their mother's curse; Agastya's teaching	40
Adhyāya 159	Kadrū and Vinatā	49
Adhyāya 160	Battle between gods and demons	22
Adhyāya 161	Creation of the world from Brahman's primordial sacrifice	78
Adhyāya 162	Story of Manyu helping the gods against the demons	33
Adhyāya 163	Śākalya, a devotee of Viṣṇu, and the Rākṣasa Paraśu	53
Adhyāya 164	Story of King Pavamāna and the Ciccika-bird	54
Adhyāya 165	Marriage of the sun-god's ugly daughter Viṣṭi	48
Adhyāya 166	Story of Sampāti and Jaṭāyu	13
Adhyāya 167	The young Brahmin and the Rākṣasī	33
Adhyāya 168	The performance of King Abhiṣṭut's horse-sacrifice	38
Adhyāya 169	The hunter and the Brahmin as devotees of Śiva	49
Adhyāya 170	The good merchant and the treacherous Brahmin	90
Adhyāya 171	The game of dice between Indra and Pramati	48
Adhyāya 172	Confluence of the Gautamī with the ocean	20
Adhyāya 173	Viśvarūpa's terrible sacrifice	39
Adhyāya 174	Completion of the sacrifice performed by the sages	33
Adhyāya 175	Brahman's teachings about dharma; on the origin of the Gaṅgā	90
Adhyāya 176	Prehistory of the image of Vāsudeva	63
Adhyāya 177	On the greatness of Puruṣottamakṣetra and the merit obtained there	30
Adhyāya 178	Kaṇḍu-episode	195
Adhyāya 179	Introduction to Kṛṣṇacarita	75
Adhyāya 180	Manifestations and incarnations of Viṣṇu	42
Adhyāya 181	Heavenly prelude to the incarnation of Viṣṇu as Kṛṣṇa	53
Adhyāya 182	Birth of Kṛṣṇa	32
Adhyāya 183	Kaṃsa's plans and thoughts	11
Adhyāya 184	Adventures of the child Kṛṣṇa	60
Adhyāya 185	Kālīya-episode	56
Adhyāya 186	Dhenuka-episode	13
Adhyāya 187	Pralamba-episode; institution of hill-worship by Kṛṣṇa	61
Adhyāya 188	Govardhana-episode; encounter of Indra and Kṛṣṇa	49
Adhyāya 189	Kṛṣṇa and the cowherds; Ariṣṭa-episode	58
Adhyāya 190	Kaṃsa's plans against Kṛṣṇa; Keśin-episode	48
Adhyāya 191	Akrūra's devotion to Kṛṣṇa	33
Adhyāya 192	Encounter between Akrūra and Kṛṣṇa; Kṛṣṇa's journey to Mathurā	86
Adhyāya 193	Kṛṣṇa's deeds in Mathurā; killing of Kaṃsa	90
Adhyāya 194	Kṛṣṇa's education; Pañcajana-episode	32
Adhyāya 195	Jarāsandha-episode	18
Adhyāya 196	Kālayavana-episode; Mucukunda and Kṛṣṇa	45
Adhyāya 197	Kṛṣṇa and Mucukunda; Baladeva in Gokula	21
Adhyāya 198	Balarāma forcing Yamunā to change her course	19
Adhyāya 199	Marriage of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī	12
Adhyāya 200	Abduction of Pradyumna and his killing of Śambara	30
Adhyāya 201	Marriage of Aniruddha; killing of Rukmin	28
Adhyāya 202	Naraka-episode	35
Adhyāya 203	Kṛṣṇa and Satyabhāmā in the world of the gods	73
Adhyāya 204	Reconciliation of Kṛṣṇa and Indra; the Pārijāta-tree on earth	18
Adhyāya 205	Descendants of Kṛṣṇa; Bāṇa-episode: Uṣā's dream	22
Adhyāya 206	Bāṇa-episode (cont.)	50
Adhyāya 207	Pauṇḍraka claiming to be Viṣṇu; the burning of Kāśi	43
Adhyāya 208	Balarāma's heroic deeds: Release of Sāmba	39
Adhyāya 209	Balarāma's heroic deeds: Dvivida-episode	23
Adhyāya 210	The destruction of the Yādavas	58
Adhyāya 211	Kṛṣṇa's death	12
Adhyāya 212	Arjuna's deeds and failures after Kṛṣṇa's death	95
Adhyāya 213	Manifestations of Viṣṇu	171
Adhyāya 214	The path to Yama's world; the gates to his city	128
Adhyāya 215	Punishment of the wicked in Yama's world; description of hells	142
Adhyāya 216	Reward of the righteous in Yama's world	89
Adhyāya 217	The fate of the soul after death; retribution for deeds by rebirth	118
Adhyāya 218	Merit of giving food to Brahmins	32
Adhyāya 219	On ancestral rites	116
Adhyāya 220	Prescriptions for ancestral rites; their effects	212
Adhyāya 221	On the proper conduct	170
Adhyāya 222	Rules for the conduct according to caste and stage of life	56
Adhyāya 223	Rise and fall within the caste system (dialogue between Śiva and Umā)	65
Adhyāya 224	On the effects of actions (dialogue between Śiva and Umā, cont.)	56
Adhyāya 225	On rebirth (dialogue between Śiva and Umā, cont.)	63
Adhyāya 226	Dialogue between Śiva and the sages	67
Adhyāya 227	On the destiny of Vaiṣṇavas after death	50
Adhyāya 228	Praise of singing while keeping vigil	152
Adhyāya 229	Episodes illustrating the manifestations of Viṣṇu's Māyā	89
Adhyāya 230	On the conditions during Kali-Yuga	82
Adhyāya 231	The end of a cycle of Yugas and the return of Kṛta-Yuga	93
Adhyāya 232	On the dissolution of things	40
Adhyāya 233	Description of occasional dissolution (cont.)	49
Adhyāya 234	On suffering and final release from existence (absolute dissolution)	75
Adhyāya 235	Description of the practice of Yoga	30
Adhyāya 236	On Sāṅkhya and Yoga	69
Adhyāya 237	On the opposition of action and knowledge	89
Adhyāya 238	On liberation by knowledge	57
Adhyāya 239	On the difference between Sāṅkhya and Yoga; on the practice of Yoga	62
Adhyāya 240	On Sāṅkhya and Yoga	112
Adhyāya 241	Dialogue between Karālajanaka and Vasiṣṭha	48
Adhyāya 242	On the worldly bondage and destiny of the soul	58
Adhyāya 243	Dialogue between Karālajanaka and Vasiṣṭha (cont.)	90
Adhyāya 244	Dialogue between Karālajanaka and Vasiṣṭha (cont.)	48
Adhyāya 245	Dialogue between Karālajanaka and Vasiṣṭha (cont.)	53
Adhyāya 246	Conclusion to the Brahmapurāṇa	40

SARIT Brahmapurāṇa source. Based on the SARIT digital edition, edited by Peter Schreiner and Renate Söhnen; base e-text: the Tübingen Purāṇa Project; TEI editing and conversion: Richard Mahoney. Copyright 2014–2018 SARIT. Converted from IAST to Devanāgarī and segmented into chapter, stanza, and prose items for this reader. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0). Print edition: Peter Schreiner and Renate Söhnen-Thieme, Sanskrit Indices and Text of the Brahmapurāṇa, Purāṇa Research Publications 1 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987).