Kṛshṇa (Son of Havirdhāna)

Kṛshṇa

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Kṛshṇa was one of the six sons of Havirdhāna and his wife Āgneyī, in the line of Svāyambhuva Manu that passed through King Pṛthu. He is not Śrī Kṛshṇa, the avatāra of Bhagavān Vishṇu, nor the Kṛshṇa whom Andhaka gave as a son to Asamauja.

Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis the lineage. Pṛthu, who rose from the churned right hand of Vena and was the first of all kings to receive the abhisheka of the rājasūya, had two sons, Antardhi and Pāti. From Antardhāna (the same as Antardhi), Śikhaṇḍinī bore Havirdhāna. From Havirdhāna, Āgneyī bore six sons: Prācīnabarhi, Śukra, Gaya, Kṛshṇa, Vraja and Ajina. This Āgneyī is not the Āgneyī who was the wife of Puru, son of Cākshusha Manu.

His eldest brother, Prācīnabarhi, became a Prajāpati. In the land he ruled the darbha grass sprouted with its tips pointing east, and so he was called Prācīnabarhi. After intense tapas he married Savarṇā, daughter of Samudra, and begot ten sons, masters of Dhanurveda.

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 2