[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c5.730 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.730 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.730 - **Language:** English ### [c5.730](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.730) DHARMASAKHA. A king of the Kekaya line of Kings. He had a hundred wives but no children. At last, at an old age, he got a son of Sucandrā, wife of his elder brother. But the hunderd wives of dharmasakha were pining for having a son and so the king consulted his ministers and on their advice conducted a Putrakāmeṣṭi yajña (a sacred sacrificial ceremony for obtaining children) at Hanūmatkuṇḍa near the southern sea-coast. As a result of that each of his hundred wives got a child. (Skanda Purāṇa, Chapter 15). - [Previous: c5.729](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.729) - [Next: c5.731](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.731) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.730](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.730) · Pramāṇa