Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 9 - Chapter 20

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 36 Sanskrit: अन्तर्वत्‍न्यां भ्रातृपत्‍न्यां मैथुनाय बृहस्पति: ।प्रवृत्तो वारितो गर्भं शप्‍त्वा वीर्यमुपासृजत् ॥ ३६ ॥ ITRANS: antarvatnyāṁ bhrātṛ-patnyāṁmaithunāya bṛhaspatiḥpravṛtto vārito garbhaṁśaptvā vīryam upāsṛjat Translation: When the demigod named Bṛhaspati was attracted by his brother’s wife, Mamatā, who at that time was pregnant, he desired to have sexual relations with her. The son within her womb forbade this, but Bṛhaspati cursed him and forcibly discharged semen into the womb of Mamatā....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 37 Sanskrit: तं त्यक्तुकामां ममतां भर्तुस्त्यागविशङ्किताम् ।नामनिर्वाचनं तस्य श्लोकमेनं सुरा जगु: ॥ ३७ ॥ ITRANS: taṁ tyaktu-kāmāṁ mamatāṁbhartus tyāga-viśaṅkitāmnāma-nirvācanaṁ tasyaślokam enaṁ surā jaguḥ Translation: Mamatā very much feared being forsaken by her husband for giving birth to an illegitimate son, and therefore she considered giving up the child. But then the demigods solved the problem by enunciating a name for the child....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 38 Sanskrit: मूढे भर द्वाजमिमं भर द्वाजं बृहस्पते ।यातौ यदुक्त्वा पितरौ भरद्वाजस्ततस्त्वयम् ॥ ३८ ॥ ITRANS: mūḍhe bhara dvājam imaṁbhara dvājaṁ bṛhaspateyātau yad uktvā pitaraubharadvājas tatas tv ayam Translation: Bṛhaspati said to Mamatā, “You foolish woman, although this child was born from the wife of one man through the semen discharged by another, you should maintain him.” Upon hearing this, Mamatā replied, “O Bṛhaspati, you maintain him!...

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 39 Sanskrit: चोद्यमाना सुरैरेवं मत्वा वितथमात्मजम् ।व्यसृजन् मरुतोऽबिभ्रन् दत्तोऽयं वितथेऽन्वये ॥ ३९ ॥ ITRANS: codyamānā surair evaṁmatvā vitatham ātmajamvyasṛjan maruto ’bibhrandatto ’yaṁ vitathe ’nvaye Translation: Although encouraged by the demigods to maintain the child, Mamatā considered him useless because of his illicit birth, and therefore she left him. Consequently, the demigods known as the Maruts maintained the child, and when Mahārāja Bharata was disappointed for want of a child, this child was given to him as his son....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 24-26 Sanskrit: चक्रं दक्षिणहस्तेऽस्य पद्मकोशोऽस्य पादयो: ।ईजे महाभिषेकेण सोऽभिषिक्तोऽधिराड् विभु: ॥ २४ ॥पञ्चपञ्चाशता मेध्यैर्गङ्गायामनु वाजिभि: ।मामतेयं पुरोधाय यमुनामनु च प्रभु: ॥ २५ ॥अष्टसप्ततिमेध्याश्वान् बबन्ध प्रददद् वसु ।भरतस्य हि दौष्मन्तेरग्नि: साचीगुणे चित: ।सहस्रं बद्वशो यस्मिन् ब्राह्मणा गा विभेजिरे ॥ २६ ॥ ITRANS: cakraṁ dakṣiṇa-haste ’syapadma-kośo ’sya pādayoḥīje mahābhiṣekeṇaso ’bhiṣikto ’dhirāḍ vibhuḥ Translation: Mahārāja Bharata, the son of Duṣmanta, had the mark of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s disc on the palm of his right hand, and he had the mark of a lotus whorl on the soles of his feet....