vamsha
वंश vaṃśaGenealogy; the lines of descent of gods and sages, the third of a Purana's five marks.
Where this term appears
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
Third, vamsha , the genealogies of the gods and the sages, who descended from whom.
- Of Old Treatise
…ga , its dissolution and re-creation, the cycle of world after world; vamsha , the genealogies of the gods and the ancient sages; manvantara , the vast ages each presided over by a Manu , a progenitor of humank…
- The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: the forest of Yajnavalkya Treatise
The Brihadaranyaka finishes with a vamsha , a lineage of teachers, the chain by which the teaching was handed down, one mouth to the next, back through the generations.
- Jagannātha and Viśvāvasu Treatise
He prints an extract from a palm-leaf manuscript called the Jarāsabar Vaṃśa Bibaraṇī , the dynastic account of the Jarāsabaras, secured by S.