Samba Purana

The Samba Purana (IAST|Sāmba Purāṇa) is one of the Saura Upapuranas. This text is dedicated to Surya. The recension of the text presented by the printed editions [Tripathi, Shrikrishnamani (ed.). "IAST|Sāmbapurāṇam (Upapurāṇam)", Varanasi: Krishnadas Academy, 1983, pp.38-68] has 84 chapters. Chapters 53-68 of this text are also divided into 15 IAST|Paṭalas. After the customary beginning in Chapter 1, the text consists the narrative of Krishna's son Samba’s getting infected by leprosy, after being cursed by his father and consequently getting cured by worshipping Surya in the temple constructed by him in Mitravana on the banks of the Chandrabhaga. The whole narrative is presented as a conversation between the king Brihadbala of Ikshvaku dynasty and the sage Vashishtha. Chapters 26-27 of this text narrate the story of bringing the Maga Brahmins from IAST|Śākadvīpa by Samba and appointing them as the priests of the Surya temple in Mitravana. Later chapters of the IAST|Sāmba Purāṇa are influenced by Tantra.

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