Kratha, Son of Vidarbha
Kratha · kratha
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Kratha is a king of the Candra line in the Tretā Yuga. The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, where Sūta tells Śaunaka of the line of Yadu, gives him as the son of Vidarbha and the father of Kuntibhoja.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 1, Chapter 2
Per Brahma Purāṇa
The Brahma Purāṇa tells how his father Vidarbha was born. Jyāmagha of the line of Kroshṭu, sent away by his brothers, conquered lands along the Narmadā and lived in the city of Śuktimatī. His wife Śaibyā, a pativratā, had no children, yet he took no other wife. Once he won a maiden in war and brought her to Śaibyā as the wife of the son who was to be born to her. The maiden performed fierce tapas, and as its fruit Śaibyā, though old, bore a son, Vidarbha. Vidarbha, in that same king’s daughter, begot two sons, Kratha and Kaiśika, both heroes, learned and skilled in war.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 1, Chapter 2
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15