Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.617

c5.617

DHARMĀNGADA. A Brahmin who became a deep meditator on Viṣṇu, because of his habits in his previous life. Dharmāṅgada was the son of Rukmāṅgada by his wife Sandhyāvalī. Rukmāṅgada was the son of Ṛtadhvaja who lived in the city of Vidiśā. He was a man of good personality, who lived with his father and being a generous man he did not hesitate to give his head to Mohinī for the pleasure of his father. God Viṣṇu was pleased with his love of his father and of his loyalty to Vaiṣṇavite deity and took him bodily to heaven (Vaikuṇṭha). Dharmāṅgada lived there for many thousands of years enjoying heavenly pleasures. Then he went astray from divine life and had to take life again as Suvrata the son of a Brahmin named Somaśarmā.