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Parikshit is the son of Abhimanyu and Uttara, and grandson of Arjuna. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] According to the Shatapatha Brahmana (XIII.5.4), Parikshita had four sons, Janamejaya, Bhimasena, Ugrasena and Śrutasena.
The History of India. The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 9781615301225. Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1953). Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of Gupta Dynasty. University of Calcutta
Janamejaya (Sanskrit: जनमेजय) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period. [1] Along with his father and predecessor Parikshit, he played a decisive role in the consolidation of the Kuru state, the arrangement of Vedic hymns into collections, and the development of the orthodox srauta ritual, transforming the Kuru realm into the dominant political and cultural part ...
Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharata and Puru tribes.The Kuru kingdom appeared in the Middle Vedic period [2] [4] (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE), encompassing parts of the modern-day states of Haryana, Delhi, and some North parts of Western Uttar Pradesh.
In 1602 the Nawab of Dhaka (governor for the Mughals) moved by Lakshmi Narayan (ruler of Koch Bihar) and others attacked Parikshit Narayan, the ruler of Koch Hajo. Parikshit, defeated at Dhubri, sued for peace. But he soon continued with the hostilities and in 1614 was driven up to Pandu, now in Guwahati. Here, Parikshit surrendered and agreed ...
Sarpayaga from Razmnama. When King Janamejaya wanted to know the reasons for his father Parikshit's death, details were made known by his council of Ministers. [16] Uttanka, one of the priests in the court of Janamejaya, who had also been cheated by Takshaka, gave a detailed account of Parikshit's death and urged Janamejaya to take revenge by holding the snake sacrifice. [17]
[25] [26] [note 2] Within the frame story of the Mahābhārata, the kings Parikshit and Janamejaya are featured significantly as scions of the Kuru clan, [28] and Michael Witzel concludes that the general setting of the epic has a historical precedent in the Vedic period, where the Kuru kingdom was the center of political power during roughly ...
Gopeshwar Mandir - There is a Shiv Lingam which is believed to be made by lord Krishna to worship lord Shiva during his stay at parikshitgarh (named after King Parikshit who was grandson of great Arjun) while going to Hastinapur as shanti doot before the war of Mahabharata. Navaldeh Koop - A well the water of which is believed to cure skin ...