Chapter 15:
King Prithu's Appearance and Coronation
(16) Brahmâ armed him with spiritual
knowledge, his wife Bhâratî, the Goddess of Learning
[Sarasvatî], gave a transcendental necklace, the Supreme
Personality [Hari, Vishnu] gave him a Sudars'ana disc and His wife
Lakshmî gave him imperishable
opulence.
Chapter 16:
King Prithu Extolled
(21) For
certain all kings of all
places will offer him presentations. With the
locally worshiped deities the
wives of these kings will consider him the Original King who wields the
weapon of his disc in defense of his [His] reputation.
Chapter 17:
Mahârâja Prithu
Becomes Angry at the Earth
(14) When
the
earth saw that he had taken up his bow and arrows, she trembling
turned into a cow and
fled away, as afraid as a
deer chased by a
hunter.
Chapter 18:
Mahârâja Prithu Milks the Earth
(9-10) Oh hero, arrange for a calf for me.
And if you also arrange for a milking pot
and a milkman, I will, from my
affection for it, fulfill all
your desires in the form of milk for each of you. I
will also, oh mighty-armed one, oh protector of the living beings, if you want, provide for the food you desired to feed yourself.
Chapter 19:
King Prithu's One Hundred Horse Sacrifices
(1) The sage Maitreya said: 'Thereafter he, the
king, in the land of Manu known as Brahmâvarta,
where the
Sarasvatî flows to the east, then initiated the
performance of a hundred horse sacrifices.
Chapter 20:
Lord Vishnu's Appearance in the Sacrificial Arena
of
Mahârâja Prithu
(26) When someone
somehow or other, even only once, in association with those who are
advanced
listens to the all-auspicious glorification of You, oh honored one, how
can someone appreciative of Your characteristics, unless he is an animal, then ever cease with that
what the Goddess of
Fortune in her desire to hear about You has accepted as Your quality?