Kuśanābha
mythological figure · 1 work · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
lord of the earth
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
One of Kuśa's four sons, founder of Mahodaya, father of a hundred daughters afflicted by Vāyu and later cured through marriage to Brahmadatta, and sponsor of a sacrifice to obtain a son.
The royal sage Kuśanābha, righteous of soul, begot in Ghṛtācī a hundred peerless daughters, O joy of the Raghu line.
—versed in counsel, deliberated with his ministers about the giving away of his daughters in marriage, discussing the proper bestowal befitting time and place.
Then that highly righteous king Kuśanābha resolved, O scion of Kākutstha, to give his hundred daughters to Brahmadatta.