ययातेर् देवयान्यां तु यदुर् ज्येष्ठो ऽभवत् सुतः ॥
यदोर् अभूद् अन्ववाये देवमीढ इति श्रुतः ॥
यादवस् तस्य च सुतः शूरस् त्रैलोक्यसंमतः ॥
शूरस्य शौरिर् नृवरो वसुदेवो महायशाः ॥
धनुष्य् अनवरः शूरः कार्तवीर्यसमो युधि ॥
तद्वीर्यश् चापि तत्रैव कुले शिनिर् अभून् नृपः ॥
yayāter devayānyāṃ tu yadur jyeṣṭho 'bhavat sutaḥ ||
yador abhūd anvavāye devamīḍha iti śrutaḥ ||
yādavas tasya ca sutaḥ śūras trailokyasaṃmataḥ ||
śūrasya śaurir nṛvaro vasudevo mahāyaśāḥ ||
dhanuṣy anavaraḥ śūraḥ kārtavīryasamo yudhi ||
tadvīryaś cāpi tatraiva kule śinir abhūn nṛpaḥ ||
"To Yayati, from Devayani, the eldest son was Yadu; in Yadu's line there was one known as Devamidha, a Yadava, and his son Shura, honored in the three worlds. From Shura came Shauri, the best of men, the greatly famed Vasudeva, unsurpassed in the bow, valiant, equal to Kartavirya in battle; and of that same valor, in that same line, was a king named Shini."
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The genealogy leads to Vasudeva, the father of Krishna: the lunar line is crowned by the one in whose house the Lord will appear. It is telling that Shini, the ancestor of Satyaki, is placed on equal footing with Vasudeva in valor: the greatness of a lineage lies not in one person but in many branches. The verse teaches that lineages are made glorious not by a single name but by a whole tree of worthy men; and the same root that raised the father of Krishna also gave the valiant Shini, whose branch would lead to Satyaki.