Verse 1

¹Virupa, Ketuman and Sambhu were Ambarisa's three sons. From Virupa came Prsadasva, and his son was Rathitara. ²Rathitara had no child, and being asked to continue the line, Angiras begot upon his wife sons who shone with the glow of Brahman. ³These, though born in another man's field, are counted again as descendants of Angiras. They are the foremost of the Rathitaras, twice-born men who go with the field. ⁴As Manu sneezed, a son was born from his nose, Iksvaku. Of his hundred sons the eldest were Vikuksi, Nimi and Dandaka. ⁵Of them, king, some were kings in Aryavarta to the east, and twenty-five to the west, and three in the middle, and the rest in other places.