Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.869

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ŚALA V. Son of King Parikṣit of the Ikṣvāku dynasty. Suśobhanā, daughter of the Maṇḍūka King was his mother. He had two brothers called Dala and Bala. Śala did not return some horses, which he had taken as loan from Vāmadeva maharṣi. Angered at this the maharṣi created some Rākṣasas, who killed Śala. (Vana Parva, Chapter 192).