Ushaṅgu
Ushaṅgu
Ushaṅgu is a king of the line of Yadu, the son of Vṛjinīvān and the father of the valiant Citraratha. Bhagavān Śiva calls him the hero who never knew defeat, as he tells the line in which Vāsudeva is born.
In Bhagavān Śiva’s account of the line of Vāsudeva
Devī Pārvatī had heard all of Parameśvara’s teaching. Then the munis near Bhagavān Śiva, and the dvijas who had come there on a tīrtha-yātrā, questioned him, and he spoke to them of the greatness of Vāsudeva. For the good of the devas, he said, Vāsudeva, of the highest intelligence, will be born in the line of the great Manu.
He gave the line: in the line of Vaivasvata Manu were born Ilā and Sudyumna; the son of Ilā is Budha; from him Purūravas, from him Āyu, from him Nahusha, from him Yayāti, from him Yadu, and from him the mighty Kroshṭā. From Kroshṭā came Vṛjinīvān; from him the hero who never knew defeat, Ushaṅgu; from him the valiant Citraratha; and to Citraratha, as his youngest son, Śūra. Śūra, a best of kshatriyas, born in a line of holy ones who performed yajñas, will gain as his son Ānakadundubhi, famed as Vasudeva, whose son is the four-armed Vāsudeva.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 226
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 226