Candrāśva
Candrāśva · candra-aśva, “he whose horses are like the moon”
Candrāśva is a king of the solar line, a son of Kuvalāśva, who became Dhundhumāra, “slayer of Dhundhu”. He was one of only three of Kuvalāśva’s hundred sons who survived the fire of the asura Dhundhu.
The sons of Dhundhumāra
Lomaharshaṇa, the Sūta, tells the munis that Uttaṅka Maharshi asked King Bṛhadaśva to slay the great asura Dhundhu, son of Madhu, who lay inside the sand-filled ocean near his āśrama and performed terrible tapas for the destruction of the worlds. Bṛhadaśva pointed to his son Kuvalāśva, and Kuvalāśva marched against Dhundhu with his hundred sons, all excellent archers, learned, dhārmika and generous in yajña. Bhagavān Vishṇu entered him. They dug the ocean to its bottom, and the rākshasa came out in the west; the fire from his mouth burned all of Kuvalāśva’s sons but three. The king quenched the fire by the power of yoga and slew Dhundhu, and Uttaṅka granted him varas, and imperishable lokas for the sons who had fallen.
Three sons were left to him: the eldest Dṛḍhāśva, and after him Candrāśva and Kapilāśva. The line went on through Dṛḍhāśva.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 7
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 7