Ugrasenā (wife of Akrūra)
Ugrasenā · ugra-senā, “she whose army is mighty”
Prasena has other meanings too: see all meanings of Prasena. Upadeva has other meanings too: see all meanings of Upadeva. Vasudeva has other meanings too: see all meanings of Vasudeva.
Ugrasenā was the wife of Akrūra of the Vṛshṇi line, of the Yadu vaṃśa (dynasty), and the mother of his two sons. She is not King Ugrasena of Mathurā, the father of Kaṃsa.
Her husband’s line
The Brahma Purāṇa tells her place in the line of Kroshṭu, son of Yadu. Vṛshṇi had two sons, Śvaphalka and Citraka. Śvaphalka was devoted to dharma: in his realm there was no fear of disease and no distress from drought. When Indra sent no rain for three years in the land of the king of Kāśī, the king brought Śvaphalka to his kingdom, and because Śvaphalka dwelt there, rain fell. Śvaphalka married Gāndinī, the daughter of the king of Kāśī, who gave a cow to a brāhmaṇa every day. In her was born Akrūra: a giver, a yajvan (one who performs yajñas), a hero, learned, fond of guests and a giver of abundant dakshiṇā.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 14, 16
Her sons
Chapter 14 says that to Akrūra by Ugrasenā were born Prasena, radiant like a deva, and Upadeva. Chapter 16 says that Akrūra had by Ugrasenā two sons, the delight of the family, of divine lustre: Vasudeva and Upadeva. This Vasudeva is Akrūra’s son, not the father of Śrī Kṛshṇa.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 14, 16
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 14, 16