Sukhodaya

Sukhodaya · sukha-udaya, “the rising of happiness”

Sukhodaya is one of the seven sons of Medhātithi, the lord of Plaksha-dvīpa, who ruled that dvīpa.

Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis of the dvīpas beyond Jambūdvīpa. Plaksha-dvīpa, twice the extent of Jambūdvīpa, is ringed by an ocean, and its lord is Medhātithi. Medhātithi has seven sons, who ruled the dvīpa: Śāntamaya, the eldest, Śiśira, Sukhodaya, Ānanda, Śiva, Kshemaka and Dhruva. Sukhodaya is named third. By their names there are seven boundary mountains. In that land the people live with devas and gandharvas; the lands are pure and full of vigour, and the people, free of ādhi (pain of mind) and vyādhi (illness), are happy at all times.

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20