{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/vp/vp115.htm","path":"hin/vp/vp115.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp115.htm","text":"The Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840]\nFuture kings of the family of Ikshw\u00e1ku, ending with Sumitra.\nI WILL now repeat to you the future princes of the family of Ikshw\u00e1ku 1.\nThe son of Vrihadbala 2 will be Vrihatksha\u0144a 3; his son will be Urukshepa 4; his son will be Vatsa 5; his son will be Vatsavy\u00faha 6; his son will be Prativyoman 7; his son will be Div\u00e1kara; his son will be Sahadeva 8; his son will be Vrihada\u015bwa 9; his son will be Bh\u00e1nuratha 10; his son will be Suprat\u00edtha 11; his son will be Marudeva 12; his son will be Sunakshatra; his son will be Kinnara 13; his son will be Antar\u00edksha; his son will be Suvarna 14; his son will be Amitrajit 15; his son will be Vrihadr\u00e1ja 16; his son will be Dharman 17; his son will be Kritanjaya; his son will be Ra\u0144anjaya; his son will be Sanjaya; his son will be \u015a\u00e1kya 18; his son will be \u015auddhodana 19; his son will be R\u00e1tula 20; his son will be\n[paragraph continues] Prasenajit; his son will be Kshudraka; his son will be Ku\u0144d\u0301aka 21; his son will be Suratha 22; his son will be Sumitra. These are the kings of the family of Ikshw\u00e1ku, descended from Vrihadbala. This commemorative verse is current concerning them; \"The race of the descendants of Ikshw\u00e1ku will terminate with Sumitra: it will end in the Kali age with him 23.\"\n463:2 Vrihadratha: V\u00e1yu,\n463:3 Vrihatkshaya: V\u00e1yu. Vrihadra\u0144a: Bh\u00e1g. Omitted: Mats.\n463:4 Omitted: V\u00e1yu. Urukshaya: Mats. Urukriya: Bh\u00e1g.\n463:5 Omitted by all three.\n463:6 Vatsavriddha: Bh\u00e1g.\n463:7 Prativy\u00faha: V\u00e1yu.\n463:8 The Bh\u00e1gavata inserts Bh\u00e1nu. The Matsya says that Ayodhy\u00e1 was the capital of Div\u00e1kara. The V\u00e1yu omits the next twelve names; probably a defect in the copies.\n463:9 Dhruv\u00e1\u015bwa: Mats.\n463:10 Bh\u00e1numat: Bh\u00e1g. Bh\u00e1vyaratha or Bh\u00e1vya: Mats.\n463:11 Pratik\u00e1\u015bwa: Bh\u00e1g. Prat\u00edp\u00e1\u015bwa: Mats.\n463:12 The Bh\u00e1gavata and Matsya prefix a Suprat\u00edpa or Suprat\u00edka.\n463:13 Pushkara: Bh\u00e1g.\n463:14 Suparvan or Sumantra: Mats. Sutapas: Bh\u00e1g.\n463:15 Amantravit: Matsya.\n463:16 Vrihadbr\u00e1ja: Bh\u00e1g,\n463:17 Omitted: Mats. Varhish: Bh\u00e1g.\n463:18 The Bh\u00e1gavata and V\u00e1yu have \u015a\u00e1kya. My copy of the Matsya has \u015a\u00e1dhya, but the Radcliffe MS., more correctly, no doubt, \u015aakya.\n463:19 In some copies Krodhodana; but it is also \u015auddhodana, Mats. and V\u00e1yu; \u015auddhoda, Bh\u00e1g.\n463:20 R\u00e1hula: V\u00e1yu. Siddh\u00e1rtha or Pushkala: Mats. L\u00e1ngala: Bh\u00e1g. This and the two preceding names are of considerable chronological interest; for \u015a\u00e1kya is the name of the author or reviver of Buddhism, whose birth appears to have occurred in the seventh, and death in the sixth century before Christ (B. C. 621-543). There can be no doubt of the individual here intended, although he is out of his place, for he was the son, not the father, of \u015auddhodana, and the father of R\u00e1hula; as he is termed in the Amara p. 464 and Haima Koshas, \u015aaudhodani or \u015auddhodana suta the son of \u015auddhodana, and R\u00e1hulas\u00fa the parent of R\u00e1hula: so also in the Mah\u00e1wan\u015bo, Siddh\u00e1rtha or \u015a\u00e1kya is the son of \u015auddhodano, and father of R\u00e1hulo. Turnour's translation, p. 9. Whether they are rightly included amongst the princes of the race of Ikshw\u00e1ku is more questionable; for \u015auddhodana is usually described as a petty prince, whose capital was not Ayodhy\u00e1, but Kapila or Kapilavastu. At the same time it appears that the provinces of the Doab had passed into the possession of princes of the lunar line, and the children of the sun may have been reduced to the country north of the Ganges, or the modern Gorakhpur, in which Kapila was situated. The Buddhists do usually consider their teacher \u015a\u00e1kya to be descended from Ikshw\u00e1ku. The chronology is less easily adjusted, but it is not altogether incompatible. According to the lists of the text, \u015a\u00e1kya, as the twenty-second of the line of Ikshw\u00e1ku, is cotemporary with Ripunjaya, the twenty-second and last of the kings of Magadh\u00e1, of the family of Jar\u00e1sandha; but, agreeably to the Buddhist authorities, he was the friend of Bimbas\u00e1ra, a king who in the Paur\u00e1\u0144ik list appears to be the fifth of the \u015aai\u015bun\u00e1ga dynasty, and tenth from Ripunjaya. The same number of princes does not necessarily imply equal duration of dynasty, and Ikshw\u00e1ku's descendants may have outlasted those of Jar\u00e1sandha; or, as is more likely--for the dynasty was obscure, and is evidently imperfectly preserved--several descents may have been omitted, the insertion of which would reconcile the Paur\u00e1\u0144ik lists with those of the Buddhists, and bring \u015a\u00e1kya down to the age of Bimbas\u00e1ra. It is evident, from what occurs in other authorities, that the Aikshw\u00e1kava princes are regarded as cotemporaries even of the \u015aai\u015bun\u00e1ga dynasty: see c. 24. n. 17.\n464:21 Kshulika: V\u00e1yu. Kulaka or Kshullaka: Mats. Omitted: Bh\u00e1g. In the Mah\u00e1v\u00edra Charitra, a work written by the celebrated Hemachandra, in the twelfth century, we have a Prasenajit, king of Magadh\u00e1, residing at Rajgriha, succeeded by \u015aren\u00edka, and he by K\u00falika. The Bauddhas have a Prasenajit cotemporary with \u015a\u00e1kya, son of Mah\u00e1padma, king of Magadh\u00e1. There is some confusion of persons either in the Paur\u00e1\u0144ik genealogies or in the Buddhist and Jain traditions, but they agree in bringing the same names together about the same period.\n464:22 Omitted: Bh\u00e1g.\n464:23 The V\u00e1yu and Bh\u00e1gavata have the same stanza. We have here twenty-nine or thirty princes of the later solar line, cotemporary with the preceding twenty-six or twenty-seven of the later dynasty of the moon.","title":"The Vishnu Purana: Book IV: Chapter XXII","type":"page"}