Verse 1

¹I will tell you the line of Puru, in which you yourself were born, Bharata, and in which royal sages were born as its members, and lines of brahmins too. ²Of Puru was born Janamejaya, and his son was Pracinvat, and then Pravira, and then Manusyu, and of him came Carupada. ³His son was Sudyu, and of him came Bahugava, and then Samyati, and his son Ahamyati, whose son is remembered as Raudrasva. ⁴His sons were Rteyu, Kakseyu, Sthandileyu, Krteyuka, Jaleyu, Sannateyu, and Dharmeyu, Satyeyu and Vrateyu, ⁵These ten were the sons born in the apsaras Ghrtaci, and Vaneyu is remembered as the youngest of them: like the senses of the chief breath, who is the self of the world.

⁶Of Rteyu came Rantibhara, and he had three sons, king: Sumati, Dhruva and Apratiratha. Kanva was Apratiratha's son. ⁷His son was Medhatithi, and from him came the twice-born men beginning with Praskanva. Sumati's son was Raibhya, and Dusmanta is held to be Raibhya's son.