Trayyāruṇa
Trayyāruṇa
Trayyāruṇa is a learned king of the line of Ikshvāku, the son of Tridhanvā and the father of Satyavrata, who became Triśaṅku. Fearing adharma, he banished his son for carrying off a maiden, and later he himself went to the forest.
His line
The Sūta tells the munis the kings of the solar line. Purukutsa, the son of Māndhātā, had a son Trasadasyu, born of Narmadā. Trasadasyu’s son was Sambhūta; his son was Tridhanvā, who crushed his enemies; and his son was the learned Trayyāruṇa.
The banishing of Satyavrata
Trayyāruṇa’s son was Satyavrata, very strong and cruel. He created obstacles to the marriage mantras and carried off the wife of another: out of childishness, desire, delusion, rashness and fickleness, he carried off the daughter of a householder who lived in the inner city.
Trayyāruṇa, fearing that adharma, rebuked his son in anger and abandoned him. “Where shall I go?” asked the son. “Live with the śvapacas,” said the father, “You are a disgrace to the family. Through you I am not one who has a son.” Obeying his father, Satyavrata left the city, and Vasishṭha, the ṛshi, did not stop him. Satyavrata lived beside the huts of the śvapākas.
After some time his father too went to the forest. Then Indra did not rain in that kingdom, and a famine of twelve years arose.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 7
Afterwards
The Sūta goes on to tell that Vasishṭha did not say “no” when the father banished the son, for he knew that Satyavrata would take up a severe twelve-year dīkshā as prāyaścitta (expiation) and that through it the stain on the family would go. Satyavrata lived in that country by his father’s command. When the fear of drought had passed, Viśvāmitra consecrated him (abhisheka) in his father’s kingdom.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 8
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 7–8