Śvetakarṇa
Śvetakarṇa · śveta-karṇa, “the white-eared one”
Śvetakarṇa is a mighty king of the line of Pūru, the heir of Satyakarṇa of Vārāṇasī. Having no son, he went to the forest, and set out on the mahāprasthāna, the great final journey. Mālinī of the Yadu line, who followed him, bore his son Ajapārśva on the way.
Satyakarṇa and Śvetakarṇa
Sūta tells the munis the line of Janamejaya, son of Parīkshit. The first of the hundred sons of Candrāpīḍa was Satyakarṇa, who lived in the city of Vārāṇasī, valiant, a yajvan and a giver of abundant dakshiṇā. His heir was the mighty Śvetakarṇa. Being sonless, Śvetakarṇa went to the forest. There Mālinī, called Grāhamālinī, born in the Yadu line, the daughter of Sucāru, conceived by him. Then Śvetakarṇa set out on the mahāprasthāna he had resolved upon earlier.
Mālinī and the child Ajapārśva
Mālinī followed her beloved, and on the way she gave birth to a tender son. Leaving the infant there, the noble Mālinī followed the king, as Draupadī followed her husbands on the mahāprasthāna. The child lay crying on the mountain, and the clouds in compassion gave him shade. Two sons of Śravishṭhā, Paippalādi and Kauśika, took pity on him and washed him in water. He had rolled crying on the stone, and his flanks were stained with blood, so the munis named him Ajapārśva, “goat-flanked”. He was raised by the two brāhmaṇas in the house of Remaka; Remaka’s wife took him as her own son, and the two brāhmaṇas became his ministers.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13