Sutanu (son of Ugrasena)

Sutanu · su-tanu, “of fine form”

Sutanu has other meanings too: see all meanings of Sutanu.

Sutanu is one of the nine sons of Ugrasena, of the Kukura line of the Yādavas, and a brother of Kaṃsa.

His family

The Brahma Purāṇa gives the line of Andhaka. Andhaka’s son Kukura was the head of the Kukuras, and in his line Abhijit had twin sons, Āhuka and Śrāhuka. Āhuka, in Kāśyapī, had two sons like sons of the devas: Devaka and Ugrasena.

Ugrasena had nine sons: Kaṃsa, Nyagrodha, Sunāma, Kaṅka, Subhūshaṇa, Rāshṭrapāla, Sutanu, Anāvṛshṭi and Pushṭimant. Their five younger sisters were Kaṃsā, Kaṃsavatī, Sutanu, Rāshṭrapālī and Kaṅkā.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15

Sources

  • Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15