Tribes in Ancient India c32.58

c32.58

Among the kings that followed Kuśa in the main line of the Kośala monarchs we do not meet with any great name until we come to Hiraṇyanābha Kauśalya who is said to have been a disciple of Ṛṣi Jaimini, from whom he learnt the science of Yoga, and imparted it in his turn to Yājñavalkya.³ This distinction of proficiency in the Yogaśāstra is, however, transferred by some of the Purāṇas to Hiraṇyanābha’s son, whom the Vāyupurāṇa⁴ calls Vasiṣṭha, and the Viṣṇupurāṇa,⁵ Puṣya. The fifth in descent from Puṣya was Maru or Manu who is said to be living in the village of Kalāpa in a state of yoga, waiting to be the progenitor of the Kṣatriyas in the next cycle. Several generations down from this monarch was Bṛhadbala who led the Kośala troops to the Kurukṣetra war.