Prithu

Senator Cule: Everything, Colonel? I can think of any number of details that your theory does not explain.

What of Zethuthros, Prithu, and Ut-Napishtim? What of Deucalion and Pyrrha? Would you have me believe that they were aboard this streamlined space scow of yours? Lieutenant Colonel Greaves: In a sense they were.

All versions of the legend are based on handed-down memories of the voyage of Spaceship X from Planet X to Earth.

But the concept of space being beyond the scope of primitive minds, the two planets were made into one, and the survivors of the disaster were pictured not as fleeing from one planet to another, but as sweating out the debacle in a craft that never left Earth.

Our appearance becomes the meaning of poetry.

So Raja Prithu said, Okay Maharaj, if you don't want to give, then give us 10,000 ears.

Make our ears 10,000, not 2 ears, 10,000 ears.

Why? Because they will listen to your character, they will listen to your voice.

They do it with the power coming out of their mouth.

Uh, and then they construct from his corpse the, a new king, Prithu Uh, who then becomes a, a king properly allied with Brahmins.

And the two things they say is, "You have to obey us, and you have to be restrained," niyatabhava, which is a-- had been a big problem.

Or from what we can tell reading between the lines in lots of Mahabharata stories is many Brahmins were-- felt very vulnerable to kings, felt they had been abused by kings.

Among the sages, Atri, Vasishta, Agastya, Narada.

Among the kings of the solar and lunar races, it lists Manu, Mandhata, Ambarisha, Muchukunda, Prithu, Yayati, Nala, Bharat, Shantanu, and Pandu.

And now, listen to these names.

Among the royal sages in that assembly, the text names Dilipa, Sagara, Bhagiratha, and Nimi.