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Shiva Purana

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पारदा मुंडकेशाश्च पाह्नवाश्श्मश्रुधारिणः ॥ निस्स्वाध्यायवषट्काराः कृतास्तेन महात्मना ॥ ४६॥

Pāradas were given close hair-cut and Pahlavas were asked to grow beard and moustache. All of them were deprived of the right of the Vedic study and the use of Vaṣaṭkāra.

english translation

जिता च सकला पृथ्वी धर्मतस्तेन भूभुजा ॥ सर्वे ते क्षत्रियास्तात धर्महीनाः कृताः पुराः ॥ ४७॥

All those Kṣatriyas who had been deprived of virtue were re-instated in piety. The entire earth was conquered by him virtuously.

english translation

स धर्मविजयी राजा विजित्वेमां वसुंधराम्॥ अश्वं संस्कारयामास वाजिमेधाय पार्थिवः॥ ४८॥

Thus conquering the earth virtuously the king instituted a horse-sacrifice.

english translation

तस्य चास्यतेस्सोऽश्वस्समुद्रे पूर्वदक्षिणे ॥ गतः षष्टिसहस्रैस्तु तत्पुत्रैरन्वितो मुने ॥ ४९ ॥

O sage, the sacrificial horse was let loose, followed by his sixty thousand sons. It reached the shore of the ocean in the south-eastern region.

english translation

देवराजेन शक्रेण सोऽश्वो हि स्वार्थसाधिना ॥ वेलासमीपेऽपहृतो भूमिं चैव प्रवेशितः ॥ ५०॥

It was stealthily removed by Indra, king of the gods, for his selfish ends near the sea-shore and taken underground.

english translation