Kukura

Kukura · kukura, “as printed, Kukura”

Punarvasu has other meanings too: see all meanings of Punarvasu. Kaṅka has other meanings too: see all meanings of Kaṅka. Andhaka has other meanings too: see all meanings of Andhaka. Bhajamāna has other meanings too: see all meanings of Bhajamāna. Punarvasu has other meanings too: see all meanings of Punarvasu. Sanaka has other meanings too: see all meanings of Sanaka. Sutanu has other meanings too: see all meanings of Sutanu. Upadeva has other meanings too: see all meanings of Upadeva. Vṛshṇi has other meanings too: see all meanings of Vṛshṇi.

Kukura is a Yādava, a son of Andhaka, and the head of the line of the Kukuras. The Brahma Purāṇa tells that the daughter of Kāśyapa bore four sons to Andhaka: Kukura, Bhajamāna, Sanaka and Balabarhisha.

The Kukura line

Kukura’s son was Vṛshṇi; his son Kapotaroma; his son Tiviri; his son Punarvasu; and his son Abhijit, who had twin sons famous as Āhuka and Śrāhuka. The ancients cite a gāthā about Āhuka: he went first with a white retinue, wearing eighty suits of armour; no one without sons, without a life of a hundred thousand years, of impure deeds, or who was no yajvan, could stand in the following of the Bhoja king; he had ten thousand elephants, ten thousand armoured men with banners and ten thousand chariots that thundered like clouds; and all the kings of the Bhoja line made the bowstring ring like a little bell.

Āhuka had two sons in Kāśyapī, like sons of the devas: Devaka and Ugrasena. Devaka’s sons were Devavant, Upadeva, Sandeva and Devarakshita, and his seven daughters, Devakī, Śāntidevā, Sudevā, Devarakshitā, Vṛkadevī, Upadevī and Sunāminī, he gave in marriage to Vasudeva. Ugrasena’s nine sons were Kaṃsa, Nyagrodha, Sunāma, Kaṅka, Subhūshaṇa, Rāshṭrapāla, Sutanu, Anāvṛshṭi and Pushṭimant, and their five younger sisters were Kaṃsā, Kaṃsavatī, Sutanu, Rāshṭrapālī and Kaṅkā. So “Ugrasena of the Kukura line has been described with his descendants.”

The phala

By hearing and holding in mind the line of the Kukuras, of great radiance, one gains growth of one’s own line and lives in happiness.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15