Bhojyā

Bhojyā

Kuśa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Kuśa. Śaibyā has other meanings too: see all meanings of Śaibyā.

Bhojyā is the wife of Śūra of the Yadu line and the mother of his ten heroic sons, the first of whom is Vasudeva, called Ānakadundubhi.

The Sūta tells the munis that Devamīḍha begot Śūra on Asiknī, and that on Bhojyā Śūra begot ten sons, all heroes. Vasudeva was born first, by the name Ānakadundubhi, for as soon as he was born the ānaka and dundubhi drums sounded in the sky and a rain of flowers fell. No one in this world was as handsome as Vasudeva; he shone with a radiance like the moon’s. After him came Devabhāga, Devaśravas, Anādhṛshṭi, Kanavaka, Vatsavān, Gṛñjama, Śyāma, Śamīka and Gaṇḍūsha. Śūra also had five daughters, wives of heroes: Pṛthukīrti, Pṛthā, Śrutadevā, Śrutaśravā and Rājādhidevī.

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 14