Chapter 15:
King Prithu's Appearance and Coronation
(16) Brahmâ armed him
with spiritual knowledge, his wife Bhâratî, the goddess of
learning [Sarasvatî] gave a transcendental necklace, the Supreme
Personality [Hari, Vishnu] gave him the Sudars'ana disc and His wife
Lakshmî gifted him imperishable beauty and opulence.
Chapter 16:
King Prithu Extolled
(21) For certain will all
kings of all places offer him presentations; with the local deities
will the wives of these kings
see him as the Original King bearing the weapon of his disc carrying
his [His] reputation.
Chapter 17:
Mahârâja Prithu
Becomes Angry at the Earth
(14) When the earth saw that he
had taken up his bow and arrows, fled she,
having turned into a cow, trembling away as afraid as a deer chased by
a hunter.
Chapter 18:
Mahârâja Prithu Milks the Earth
(9-10) O hero, arrange
for a calf from me; from my affection for it I will, if you also
arrange for a milking pot and a milkman, fulfill all your desires for
milk for each of you, as well as, o mighty-armed one, o protector of
the living beings, the food you wanted for feeding yourselves, if you
so desire.
Chapter 19:
King Prithu's One Hundred Horse Sacrifices
(1) The sage Maitreya
said: 'Thereafter initiated he, the king, in the land of Manu known as
Brahmâvarta,
where the Sarasvatî flows to the east, then the performance of a
hundred horse sacrifices.
Chapter 20:
Lord Vishnu's Appearance in the Sacrificial Arena of
Mahârâja Prithu
(26) When someone somehow or
other even only once, in the association of the advanced, listens to
the all-auspicious glorification of You, o honored one, how can one in
favor of the qualities, unless he is an animal, then ever cease with
that what the Goddess of Fortune with her desire to receive has
accepted as Your quality?
