Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3152
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.3152
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KUŚANĀBHA. A son born to Kuśa of Vaidarbhī. (For Genealogy see under Viśvāmitra). Sage Kuśa had four sons, namely Kuśāmba, Kuśanābha, Asūrtarajasa and Vasu, and Kuśanābha built Mahodayapura and lived there. One hundred daughters were born to him of his wife Ghṛtācī. Vāyubhagavān once asked the girls to marry him at which proposal they laughed at him in derision. He cursed them and made them hunch-backed ugly women, and Kuśanābha felt very sorry about this cruel fate of his daughters.