The Vishnu Purana
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The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter VIII

408:13 The Váyu, Agni, Bráhma P., and Hari V. interpose two sons of Pratarddana, Garga or Bharga and Vatsa; and they make Vatsa the father of Alarka, except the Bráhma, which has Śatrujit and Ritadhwaja as two princes following Vatsa.

408:14 The Váyu, Bráhma, and Hari V. repeat this stanza, and add that Alarka enjoyed such protracted existence through the favour of Lopamudrá, and that having p. 409 lived till the period at which the curs upon terminated, he killed the Rákshas Kshemaka, by whom it had been occupied after it was abandoned by Divodása, and caused the city to be reinhabited. The Hari V. agrees as usual with the Bráhma, except in the reading of one or two names. It is to be observed, however, that the Agni makes the Káśí princes the descendants of Vitatha, the successor of Bharata. The Bráhma P. and Hari V., determined apparently to be right, give the list twice over, deriving it in one place from Kshatravriddha, as in our text, the Váyu, and the Bhágavata; and in another, with the Agni, from Vitatha. The series of the Bráhma, however, stops with Lauhi, the son of Alarka, and does not warrant the repetition which the carelessness of the compiler of the Hari Vanśa has superfluously inserted.

409:15 Several varieties occur, in the series that follows, as the comparative lists will best shew:

Bhágavata.

Bráhma.

Váyu.

Agni.

Alarka

Alarka

Alarka

Alarka

Santati

Sannati

Sannati

Dharmaketu

Sunítha

Sunítha

Sunítha

Vibhu

Suketana

Kshema

Suketu

Sukumára

Dharmaketu

Ketumat

Dhrisht́aketu

Satyaketu

Satyaketu

Suketu

Veńuhotra

Dhrisht́aketu

Dharmaketu

Gárgya

Sukumára

Satyaketu

Gargabhúmi

Vítihotra

Vibhu

Vatsabhúmi

Bhárga

Anartta

Bhargabhúmi

Sukumára

Dhrisht́aketu

Veńuhotri

Bharga

Vatsabhúmi.