अध्याय ८२
श्लोक 1
मत्स्य-पुराण ८२ गुडधेनुविधानं मे समाचक्ष्व जगत्पते किंरूपं केन मन्त्रेण दातव्यं तदिहोच्यताम्
matsya-purāṇa 82 guḍadhenuvidhānaṃ me samācakṣva jagatpate kiṃrūpaṃ kena mantreṇa dātavyaṃ tadihocyatām
हिन्दी अर्थ
है। उसी पर्वतसे इन्द्र नित्य अधिक-से-अधिक जल ग्रहण करते हें ॥१--१०॥ वहीं महान् समृद्धिशाली नारद नामक पर्वत है, जिसे दुर्गशैल भी कहते हैं। पूर्वकालमें ये दोनों नारद और दुर्गशैल पर्वत यहीं उत्पन्न हुए थे। उसके बाद श्याम नामक अत्यन्त विशाल पर्वत है, जहाँ पूर्वकालमें ये सारी प्रजाएँ श्यामलताको प्राप्त हो गयी थीं। श्यामपर्वतके सदृश काले रंगवाला वहीं दुन्दुभि पर्वत भी है, जिसपर प्राचीनकालमें देवताओंद्वारा दुन्दुभिके बजाये जानेपर उसके शब्दसे ही (शत्रुओंकी) मृत्यु हो
English
Now M'lhdipadma, called also Nanda, the founder of the Nanda dynasty was crowned one hundred years before Chandra Qupta, according to the reading of all the Puranas. Consequently, the coronation of Mahapadma took place in 422 B C. or 100 years before tlie accession of Chandra Gupta Maurja in 322 B.C. Ad<ling this figure 422 to 1050 we get 1472, That was the time when Pariksit was born (during the Mahabhdrata war) as the posthumous son of Abhimanyu who was killed in that war, if we taka the above verse as correct, which it is not as will be proved later on. According to this calculation the Great War took place 1472 years before Christ. Our previous calculation gave us 1763 B.C. as the year of the Great War, while this gives us 1472 B C. as the year of that war. Thus there is a difference of 291 years.