Hiraṇyanābha Kausalya
Hiraṇyanābha Kausalya · hiraṇya-nābha kausalya, “the golden-naveled one of Kosala”
Pushya has other meanings too: see all meanings of Pushya. Yoga has other meanings too: see all meanings of Yoga.
Hiraṇyanābha of Kosala (Kausalya, “of Kosala”) was a king of the Raghu line who ruled after Śrī Rāma, the son of Vidhṛti and the father of Pushya, and at the same time a great teacher of yoga. The Bhāgavata Purāṇa calls him a disciple of Jaimini and a yogācārya, a master of yoga. Yājñavalkya Maharshi of Kosala learned adhyātma-yoga, the yoga of the ātmā, from him, a yoga that gives the seeker true rising and cuts the knot of ajñāna in the heart. Kṛti, son of Sannatimān in the line of Dvimīḍha, received yogavidyā from him. In the line of the Sāmaveda he is counted among the disciples of Sukarma who received the saṃhitās, and his own disciple Kṛta taught twenty-four saṃhitās. King Citraketu names him among the siddhas who wander the earth wholly free, granting ātma-jñāna to the world.
In the line of Śrī Rāma
Śuka Maharshi tells Parīkshit of the kings of the Raghu line after Śrī Rāma, each the son of the one before: Kuśa, Atithi, Nishadha, Nabha, Puṇḍarīka, Kshemadhanvā, Devānīka, Anīha, Pāriyātra, Balasthala, Vajranābha (born with an aṃśa of Sūrya), Khagaṇa, Vidhṛti, and Vidhṛti’s son Hiraṇyanābha. Hiraṇyanābha was a disciple of Jaimini and a yogācārya. Yājñavalkya Maharshi, who lived in the land of Kosala, studied adhyātma-yoga from him, and that yoga gives the sādhaka great abhyudaya (rising) and cuts the knot of ajñāna in the heart.
Hiraṇyanābha’s son was Pushya. After him the line went on through Dhruvasandhi, Sudarśana, Agnivarṇa, Śīghra and Maru, who conquered death by yoga, lives now in the village of Kalāpa, and at the end of the Kali yuga will set going again the Sūrya vaṃśa.
Source: Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 9, Chapter 12
His pupil Kṛti
In the line of Dvimīḍha, son of Hasti, Śuka names Sannatimān, whose son was Kṛti. Kṛti received yogavidyā from Hiraṇyanābha, and he also sang the six mantra-saṃhitās called the Prācya-sāmas. Kṛti’s son was Nīpa.
Source: Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 9, Chapter 21
In the line of the Sāmaveda
Sūta Maharshi, telling Śaunaka and the ṛshis how the Vedas were divided, says that Jaimini studied the Sāmaveda, and that Jaimini’s great disciple Sukarma Maharshi divided the tree of the Sāmaveda into a thousand śākhās. Hiraṇyanābha of the Kosala country, Paushyañji and Āvantya, best of the knowers of the Veda, became disciples of Sukarma and received those saṃhitās. Paushyañji and Āvantya had five hundred disciples from the northern country, and Paushyañji’s disciples each studied a hundred saṃhitās. Kṛta, the disciple of Hiraṇyanābha, taught twenty-four saṃhitās to his own disciples, and Āvantya taught the rest.
Source: Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 12, Chapter 6
Among the siddhas
When Aṅgiras and Nārada came to King Citraketu as he grieved for his son, the king asked who they were. The knowers of Brahman, he said, are forms of the very ātmā of Bhagavān Śrī Hari, and they wander freely on the earth to teach those whose minds cling to pleasure. Then he named the siddhas who wander wholly free, granting ātma-jñāna to the world: Sanatkumāra, Nārada, Ṛbhu, Aṅgiras, Devala, Asita, Apāntaratama, Vyāsa, Mārkaṇḍeya, Gautama, Vasishṭha, Bhagavān Paraśurāma, Kapila, Śuka, Durvāsa, Yājñavalkya, Jātūkarṇya, Āruṇi, Romaśa, Cyavana, Dattātreya, Āsuri, Patañjali, Vedaśiras Maharshi, Bodhya Muni, Pañcaśiras, Hiraṇyanābha, Kausalya, Śrutadeva, Ṛtadhvaja and many others.
Source: Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 6, Chapter 15
Sources
- Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 6, Chapter 15; Skandha 9, Chapters 12, 21; Skandha 12, Chapter 6