Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c29.254

c29.254

The large Yādava kingdom appears to have been divided among Sātvata’s four sons, Bhajamāna, Devāvṛdha, Andhaka and Vṛṣṇi.⁶ Bhajamāna’s kingdom is not specified, and his descendants attained no distinction. Devāvṛdha is connected with the R. Parṇāśā (the modern Banas in West Malwa), and he, his son Babhru and his descendants reigned at Mārttikāvata, which was apparently in the Śālva country ⁷ around Mt. Abu. Andhaka reigned at Mathurā, the chief Yādava capital, as mentioned above. He had two sons, Kukura and Bhajamāna. Kukura and his descendants, the Kukuras, formed the main dynasty there down to Kaṁsa, while this Bhajamāna’s descendants, who were specially known as the Andhakas, formed a princely line somewhere there, and Kṛtavarman was their king in the Pāṇḍavas’ time.¹ Vṛṣṇi reigned probably at Dvārakā in Gujarat, because his descendant Akrūra reigned there.² Besides these there were Vidarbha, and other Yādava kingdoms in Avanti,³ Daśārṇa ⁴, &c., and probably a small Haihaya kingdom at Māhiṣmatī.⁵ The Bhojas were a family among the Haihayas (p. 102), and yet the name Bhoja is used widely of many Yādavas. Andhaka was the ‘great Bhoja’, and Devāvṛdha’s descendants were Bhojas (p. 105). Ugrasena and his son Kaṁsa were Bhojas,⁶ and so was Kṛtavarman.⁷ So also Bhīṣmaka and his son Rukmin of Vidarbha.⁸ In fact the Bhojas were widespread,⁹ and it would almost seem as if the name belonged to the Yādavas generally, except perhaps the Vṛṣṇis in Gujarat.¹⁰