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The '''Samba Purana''' ({{lang-sa|साम्ब पुराण}}, {{IAST|Sāmba Purāṇa}}) is one of the [[Saura (Hinduism)|Saura]] [[Upapurana]]s. This text is dedicated to [[Surya]]. The recension of the text found in the printed editions has 84 chapters.{{sfnp|Tripathi|1983|pp=38-68}} Chapters 53-68 of this text are also divided into 15 {{IAST|Paṭala}}s.<br />
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== Content ==<br />
[[File:Konark Sun Temple Statue of Sun God.jpg|thumb|Konark statue of Sun God wearing central Asian boots]]<br />
Samba Purana is a text dedicated to the worship of Lord Sun (Surya). This text comprises a number of narratives dealing with creation, details of solar system, eclipses, geography of the earth, description of Surya and his attendants, construction of images of these deities, details of [[yoga]], manners and customs, rites and rituals, recitations of [[mantra]]s, and ''[[dāna]]'' (generosity).{{sfnp|Hazra|2003|p=284}}<br />
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After the customary beginning in Chapter 1, the text consists the narrative of [[Krishna]]'s son [[Samba (Krishna's son)|Samba]] being infected by leprosy after being cursed by sage [[Durvasa]], and subsequently being cured by worshipping Surya in the temple constructed by him in Mitravana on the banks of the [[Chenab River|Chandrabhaga]] at what was [[Multan Sun Temple]].{{sfnp|Dowson|2013|pp=276-277}} This whole narrative is presented as a conversation between the king [[Brihadbala]] of [[Ikshvaku dynasty]] and the sage [[Vashishtha]].<br />
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In Chapter two, Samba, a son of Lord Krishna was cursed to be afflicted by leprosy. In chapter 5, Samb was then advised by Narad Muni to worship Surya. In Chapter 14, Samba engaged himself in tapa meditating on Lord Sun at Mitravan (identified by scholars as [[Multan]]) which came to be called Sambapur. In chapter 16, Samba discovered an idol of Lord Sun midstream in Chandrabhaga ([[Chinab]]) river.<br />
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Chapters 26-27 of this text narrate the story of bringing the eighteen [[Maga Brahmin]]s from {{IAST|[[Shakdvipa|Śākadvīpa]]}} by Samba and appointing them as the priests of the Surya temple in Mitravana. He is then told in chapter 27 that only the Maga brahmins in [[Shakadvipa]] are capable of worshiping the idol of Lord Sun. Samba then went to Shakadvipa and fetched Maga brahmins to worship Lord Sun. The Maga are described as reciting the Vedas in a mysterious way, they wear [[Kushti|avayanga]]. They drink [[Haoma|homa]] juice. Samba brought 18 families from Shakadvipa, flying on the Garuda bird. The image of Lord Surya explained that it was crafted in Shakadvipa itself, and eventually arrived at Mitravan. Much of the text is devoted to rituals associated with Sun worship.<br />
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== History ==<br />
R.C. Hazra in his Studies in the Upapuranas dates Samba Purana between 650-850 CE.{{sfnp|Ahmad|2008}} The text in Brāhmaparvan of the [[Bhavishya Purana]] is largely taken from the Samba Purana which is regarded to be older.{{sfnp|Jha|2011}}{{sfnp|Hohenberger|1967}}{{sfnp|Glaesser|1969}}<br />
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=== Govindpur Inscription of Poet Gangadhar ===<br />
An inscription of Saka 1059 (1137-38 CE) was discovered by Cunningham at Govindpur in the Nawada division of the Gaya district.<br />
It gives the account of Maga Brahmins being invited by Samba. The scholarly family of Gangadhar belonged to a clan of Maga Brahmins.{{sfnp|Ray|1931|p=348}}{{sfnp|Kielhorn|1894}} The inscription confirms that the tradition existed before Saka 1059, confirming the antiquity of the text of Samba Purana. The Gaya region is a major center of the [[Shakadwipiya]] brahmins who use local village names as the exogamous divisions of their community.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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* {{cite thesis |last1=Ahmad |first1=Erfan |year=2008 |title=Sāmba Purāna: a study |publisher=Aligarh Muslim University |location=Aligarh, India |url=http://ir.amu.ac.in/3235/1/DS%203867.pdf}} <br />
* {{cite book |last1=Dowson |first1=John |title=A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology, and Religion, Geography, History |publisher=Routledge |orig-year=2000 |date=5 November 2013 |isbn=9781136390296 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=leH7AQAAQBAJ&dq=samba+krishna+curse&pg=PA276 |accessdate=29 April 2017 |language=en}}<br />
* {{cite journal |last1=Glaesser |first1=Gustav |title=Review of Das Bhaviṣyapurāṇa (Münchener Indologische Studien vol. 5) |journal=East and West |date=1969 |volume=19 |issue=3/4 |pages=511–513 |jstor=29755461 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29755461 |issn=0012-8376}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Hazra |first1=R.C. |orig-year=1962 |year=2003 |contribution=The Upapuranas |editor1-last=Radhakrishnan |editor1-first=S. |title=The Cultural Heritage of India |volume=2 |location=Kolkata |publisher=The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture |isbn=81-85843-03-1}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Hohenberger |first1=Adam |title=Das Bhaviṣyapurāṇa |series=Münchener Indologische Studien. '''5''' |editor1-last=Hoffmann |editor1-first=Helmut |location=Wiesbaden |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz |year=1967 |issn=0077-1880 |language=de}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Jha |first1=Bhavanath |title=An Introduction To The Samba Purana |date=2011 |url=https://archive.org/details/AnIntroductionToTheSambaPurana/page/n9 |language=Hindi}}<br />
* {{cite journal |last1=Kielhorn |first1=F. |year=1894 |title=Govindpur stone inscription of the poet Gangadhar, the Śaka year 1059 |journal=Epigraphia Indica |volume=2 |pages=330–342 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Epigraphia_Indica/2pZEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=govindpur+inscription+saka+1059&pg=PA330&printsec=frontcover}}<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Ray |first1=H.C. |title=Dynastic History Of Northern India |volume=1 |date=1931 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |location=New Delhi |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39542/page/n391/}}<br />
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Tripathi |editor1-first=Shrikrishnamani |title={{IAST|Sāmbapurāṇam (Upapurāṇam)}} |location=Varanasi |publisher=Krishnadas Academy |year=1983}}<br />
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