Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 1


Sanskrit:

श्रीशुक उवाचएवं गतेऽथ सुद्युम्ने मनुर्वैवस्वत: सुते ।पुत्रकामस्तपस्तेपे यमुनायां शतं समा: ॥ १ ॥

ITRANS:

śrī-śuka uvācaevaṁ gate ’tha sudyumnemanur vaivasvataḥ suteputra-kāmas tapas tepeyamunāyāṁ śataṁ samāḥ

Translation:

Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Thereafter, when his son Sudyumna had thus gone to the forest to accept the order of vānaprastha, Vaivasvata Manu [Śrāddhadeva], being desirous of getting more sons, performed severe austerities on the bank of the Yamunā for one hundred years.

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