Śūrasena (son of Kārtavīrya)
Śūrasena · śūra-sena, “whose army is of heroes”
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Śūrasena is a Haihaya prince of the line of Yadu, one of the sons of the great king Kārtavīryārjuna. Kārtavīrya had a hundred sons, and of them only five remained, strong, heroic, righteous and renowned: Śūrasena, Śūra, Vṛshaṇa, Madhupadhvaja and Jayadhvaja. Śūrasena is named first of the five. He is not Śūrasena, the king of Pratishṭhāna of the Lunar line.
His father and brothers
Sūta tells the munis the line of Yadu. Kārtavīryārjuna, son of Kṛtavīrya, had a thousand arms, ruled the seven dvīpas and received four varas from Dattātreya. When Agni, with Kārtavīrya, burned the āśrama of Āpava, the son of Varuṇa, Āpava pronounced a śāpa that a great hero named Rāma, the son of Jamadagni, would cut off his thousand arms and slay him. So, as Kārtavīrya had once asked in his vara, he reached vīra-svarga (the svarga of heroes) at the hand of Paraśurāma.
Of the hundred sons he left, five remained. Śūrasena’s brother Jayadhvaja ruled the Avantī country; Jayadhvaja’s son was Tālajaṅgha, whose hundred sons were the Tālajaṅghas. In the great Haihaya line came the Vītihotras, Suvratas, Bhojas, Avantis, Tauṇḍikeras, Tālajaṅghas, Bharatas, Sujātas and many others.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13