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TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF KALINGA 87 Yayāti, are important. Yati, the eldest, became a muni and gave up the kingdom and hence Yayāti succeeded him on the throne. He was a renowned conqueror, 1 extended his kingdom widely and was known as a Samrāt. He appears to have conquered not only all Madhyadeśa, west of Ayodhyā and Kānyakubja kingdoms and northwest as far as the river Sarasvatibut also the country west, south and south-west of his kingdom of Pratishthāna.“ Yayāti had two wives—Devayāni, daughter of the great Bbārgaya Rishi Uśanas-sūkra, and Sarmishțhā, daughter of the Daitya-dānavāsura king Vrishaparvana. The former bore two sons-Yadu and Turvasu, and the latter three - Druhyu, Anu and Puru. Yayāti divided his territories among them and it developed into five kingdoms, From these sons were descended the five famous royal lines of the Yndus (or Yādavas), the Turvasus, the Druhyus, the Anus (or Anavas) and the Purus (or Pauravas). Here we are concerned with the fourth viz. the Anavas. The seventh successive king after Anu had two sons – Usinara and Titikshu, and under them the Anavas were divided into two important branches. Usinara and his descendants occupied the Punjab. The other branch of the Anavas under Titikshu moved eastwards and passing beyond the Videha and the Vaiśāli countries, descended into Eastern Bihar among the ruder Saudyumna stock, reference to which has already been made. There, they founded a kingdom which was called 'the Kingdom of the East'.
1. Voyu, 93, 80 ; Brahmayda; 111, 68, 19, 92; Matsya, 24, 55-6; Linga, I, 67, 13; Brahma, 12, 4, 18; Harivamsa, 30, 1602, 1616; Mbh, XII, 29, 987; AIHT, p. 258.
2. Mbh, I, 76, 3156. Also Sirvabbauma (Mbh, 129, 10516). 3. Rig Veda, VII, 95, 2; Mbh, IX, 42, 2349.52; AIHT, p. 258. 4. Mbh, v, 113, 3905, rightly makes Pratishthāna bis capital.
5. Väyu, 68, 23.4 ; Brahmanda, III, 6, 23, 25; Matsya, 6, 20, 22; Vishņu, I, 21, 6 ; AIHT, p. 87.
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