Aṅgārasetu

Aṅgārasetu · aṅgāra-setu

Gāndhāra has other meanings too: see all meanings of Gāndhāra.

Aṅgārasetu is a king of the line of Druhyu, the son of Babhrusetu and the father of Gāndhāra. He was king of the Maruts.

Druhyu’s son was the great king Babhrusetu, and Babhrusetu’s son was Aṅgārasetu, king of the Maruts. That hero was felled in battle only with great difficulty by Yauvanāśva, after a terrible war that lasted fourteen months. Aṅgārasetu’s son was Gāndhāra, by whose name the country Gāndhāra became famous; the horses of the Gāndhāra country are excellent.

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13