Rituparna

Rutuparna Sarvakama, into whose value king Nala entered after he had lost his kingdom. Rutuparna was the master mathematician as alive as profoundly skilled in dice Kali Demon. Nala, as Bahuk one with a hump became a minister as alive as later the charioteer in King Rituparna's court on the leadership of the King of Snakes Nagas to learn from him the skills of dice.

According to the story of Nala-Damayanti of Mahabharata, after the disappearance of King Nala, his queen, Damayanti & her father's the father-in-law of King Nala, the king of Vidarbha Kingdom courtiers noted out a search party to find him. One of the courtiers submission a person "resembling in behaviour, but not in features" with Nala in King Rutuparna's court in Ayodhya. To test this fact it was proclaimed that Queen Damayanti asked for her beauty had assented to remarry, & consequently an invitation to a swayamvara for the same was intended to Rutuparna's court too. However the swayamvara a ritual wherein a princess bride chooses her own suitor for marriage from among a office of suitors, was scheduled for the very next day, and the distance to her father's kingdom from Ayodhya could non be covered in a night. For this Nala as Bahuk present to transport King Rutuparna to Damayanti's kingdom. As Nala was the best charioteer Nala he wastoDamayanti's father's palace in time for the swayamvara. On the way King Rutuparna so-called Nala or Bahuk, as he was known to him, for the secrets and techniques of fast chariot driving. Nala agreed but in proceeds for which he asked the knowledge and techniques of dice playing, in which Rutuparna was the master. Thus on a mutual acceptance, within a night's journey Rutuparna taught Dice-playing to Nala and Nala taught him chariot driving skills.

On reaching Damayanti's father's palace, however, king Rutuparna was informed that the swayamvara was a sham and actually a ploy to find Nala, who indeed came back to his own develope from that of Bahuk using a boon from the snake king king of the Nagas. And using the art of Dice learnt from Rutuparna in the previous night's journey, Nala defeated his brother Pushkara in dice and became the king of Nishadha Kingdom again.

The story does not cite anything else approximately King Rutuparna after this episode Nala being re-crowned ruler of Nishadha Kingdom .