Descent

Genealogical Lineages

The genealogical record of the war's participants, drawn from the Rigveda, Brāhmaṇas, and Purāṇic sources. Each entry distinguishes between the Vedic attestation and the later traditional elaboration.

Sudās against the coalition: who fought, and the polities each side is later said to have become.

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I · Dynastic tradition & the war

II · The parties

III · Successor polities

attested traditional inferred reconstructed Bharata side

The event

The Dāśarājñá

The event · RV 7.18, 7.33, 7.83

Attested

The battle on the Paruṣṇī in which the Bharata king Sudās broke a coalition of ten or more kings. Everything below is either a party to it or a line later traced back through one.

Parties named in RV 7.18

People

  • SudāsBharata king, victor
  • VasiṣṭhaBharata priest, composer of Maṇḍala 7
  • ViśvāmitraPriest who left to the confederacy
  • Indra & VaruṇaThe divine pair invoked for victory

RV 7.18 · RV 7.33 · RV 7.83