Vṛshṇi (Son of Kukura)

Vṛshṇi

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Vṛshṇi is a king of the line of Yadu, the son of Kukura and grandson of Andhaka, from whom the Kukuras descend. He is not Vṛshṇi the son of Sattvant, nor Vṛshṇi the son of Mādrī, the father of Śvaphalka and Citraka.

In the line of the Kukuras

In the account of the line of Vṛshṇi, the Purāṇa tells that Sattvant‘s son Andhaka had four sons by the daughter of Kāśyapa: Kukura, Bhajamāna, Sanaka and Balabarhisha. Kukura’s son was Vṛshṇi.

Vṛshṇi’s son was Kapotaroma. His son was Tiviri; his son Punarvasu; his son Abhijit. Abhijit had twin sons, and one of them was the famous Āhuka. Āhuka, in Kāśyapī, had two sons like sons of the devas, Devaka and Ugrasena. Devaka gave his seven daughters, Devakī first among them, in marriage to Vasudeva, and Kaṃsa was the eldest of Ugrasena’s nine sons. “Ugrasena of the Kukura line has been described with his descendants.”

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 15