Political History Of Ancient India

SR No.: 032292
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hemchandra Raychaudhari
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 714
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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IKSHVĀKU KINGS
In the Satapatha Brahmana1 he is styled an Aikshvāka.2 Trasadasyu,3 too, finds mention in the Rig-Veda.* Tryaruna is also mentioned in the same Veda. In the Panchavimsa Brahmana he is called an Aikshvāka. Trisanku is referred to in the Taittiriya Upanishad.
Harischandra 10 figures in the Aitareya Brahmana 11 and is styled Aikshvāka. Rohita, the son of Harischandra 12 is also alluded to in the same Brahmana.13 Bhagiratha 14 figures prominently in the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana under the slightly different name of Bhageratha 15 and is called Aikshvaka and 'Ekarat' (sole ruler ). Under the name of Bhajeratha he is probably referred to in the Rig-Veda 16 itself. Ambarisha 17 is mentioned in the same Veda.18 Rituparna 19 finds mention in a Brāhmaṇa-like passage of the Baudhayana Śrauta Sutra.20 Dasaratha and Rama1 bear names that are known to the Rig-Veda.22 But these personages and a few others mentioned above are not connected in the Vedic texts with the Ikshvāku family or with Kosala.
Hiranyanabha Kausalya,23 is mentioned in the Praśna Upanishad, as a rajaputra or prince. He is undoubtedly
1 XIII. 5. 4. 5.
2 Cf. reference to the Rig-Veda, IV, 42. 8 in this connection.
3 Vayu, 88. 74.
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Vayu, 88, 77.
7 XIII. 3. 12.
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19
Vayu, 88. 117.
VII. 14.
Vayu, 88. 109.
11 VII. 13. 16.
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X. 60. 2.
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Vayu, 88. 173.
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22 I. 126. 4; X. 93. 14.
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Vayu, 88. 183-184. Vayu, 88. 207. 24 VI. 1. In the Jaim. Up. Br. II. 6. he (cf. Śankh. Śr. Sutra, XVI. 9. 13) or his son (Sat. Br. XIII. 5. 4. 4). is styled a māhārāja. Too much significance should not be attached to the designation rajaputra (as distinguished from rājā). In the Mbh. V. 165. 18, Brihadvala is a raja of Kosala (Kausalya). In a later passage of the epic (XI. 25. 10) the same ruler is referred to as Kosalānāmadhipatim rajaputram Brihadbalam.
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IV. 38. 1; VII. 19. 3, etc.
V. 27.
I. 10. 1.
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Vayu, 88. 167.
Vayu, 88. 171,
XVIII. 12 (Vol. II, p. 357).
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Vayu, 88. 119.
IV. 6. 1ff.
I. 100. 17.