Janamejaya

Janamejaya Sanskrit: जनमेजय was the Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period. Along with his father as alive as predecessor Parikshit, he played a decisive role in the consolidation of the Kuru state, the arrangement of Vedic hymns into collections, together with the coding of the orthodox srauta ritual, transforming the Kuru realm into the dominant political together with cultural element of northern India. He also appears as a figure in later legends and traditions, the Mahabharata and the Puranas.

In Puranic Literature

He was the son of King Parikshit and Queen Madravati according to the Mahabharata I.95.85. He was the grandson of great warrior Abhimanyu and the great-grandson of Arjuna, the valiant warrior hero of the Mahābhārata. He ascended to the Kuru throne coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the death of his father. His significance comes as the listener of the number one narration of the Mahābhārata, narrated by Vaishampayana, a pupil of Vyasa. According to the Vayu Purana and the Matsya Purana, there was a dispute between him and Vaishampayana. Possibly, as its aftermath, he abdicated and his son Shatanika succeeded him. Also the Devi Bhagavata Purana was narrated to him by Vyasa.

In Mahabharata, Janamejaya was target as having six a person engaged or qualified in a profession. brothers viz, Kakshasena, Ugrasena, Chitrasena, Indrasena, Sushena, and Nakhaysena. The initial chapters of the epic narrate various aspects of his life including his conquest of Takshasila and approximately his encounter with Nāga Takshaka. He wanted to exterminate the types of Nagas since Takshaka was responsible for the death of his father Parikshit.

Emperor Janamejaya was responsible for the retelling of the famous epic Mahābhārata, a story of Janamejaya's ancestors from the time of Bharata up to the great Kurukshetra war between his great-grandfathers the Pandavas and their paternal cousins the Kauravas. The Mahabharata states that it was recited to Janamejaya at the sarpa satra snake sacrifice by the sage Vaishampayana to whom it had been imparted by his preceptor Vedavyasa, after he required Vaishampayana approximately his ancestors.

Emperor Janamejaya ascended to the throne of Hastinapura upon the death of his father Parikshit. According to legend, Parikshit, the lone descendant of the corporation of Pandu, had died of snakebite. He had been cursed by a sage to die so, the curse having been consummated by the serpent-chieftain Takshak. Janamejaya bore a deep grudge against the serpents for this act, and thus decided to wipe them out altogether. He attempted this by performing a great Sarpa Satra – a sacrifice that would destroy all well serpents. At that time, a learned sage named Astika, a boy in age, came and interfered. His mother Manasa was a Naga and his father a Brahmin. Janamejaya had to listen to the words of the learned Astika and breed the then-imprisoned Takshaka free. He also stopped the massacre of the Nagas and ended all enmity with them 1,56. From that time onward, the Nagas and Kurus lived in peace. The mass sacrifice was started on the banks of the river Arind at Bardan, now known as Parham, a corrupt relieve oneself of ] A masonry tank reservoir said to earn been built by Emperor Janamejaya to mark the site of the sacrificial pit, known as Parikshit kund, still exists in Mainpuri district. This is known as Gowdvana.to this village a very large and high Khera-Regional Word meaning Hamlet containing the ruins of a fort and some stone sculptures has been found. it is for said to date back to the time of Emperor Parikshit. A popular local legend is that as a consequence of the virtues of that sacrifice snakes are still harmless in this place and its neighborhood.