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वीतहव्योपाख्यान (vItahavyopAkhyAna)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वीत—ह°व्योपाख्यान
n.
N.
 of a ch. of the Vāsiṣṭha-rāmāyaṇa.
Mahabharata
English
[Vītahavyopākhyāna(ṃ)]
(“the episode relating to Vītahavya”). § 736b (Ānuśāsanik.). Bhīshma said: While Manu, in days of yore, was righteously ruling his subjects, he obtained a righteous son Śaryāti, in whose race were born Vatsa's sons, the kings Haihaya and Tālajaṅgha. Haihaya (or Vītahavya) had 10 wives and 100 heroic sons, who all studied the Vedas and Dhanurveda. In Kāśi was king Haryaśva, the grandfather of Divodāsa. The sons of king Haihaya (Vītahavya-dāyādaiḥ) invaded Kāśi and slew king Haryaśva in a battle between the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā, and then went back to their own delightful city in the Vatsacountry. Meanwhile Haryaśva's son Sudeva was installed as Kāśi-king. The 100 sons of Vītahavya once more came and defeated him in battle, and then returned to their own city. After this, Sudeva's son Divodāsa became installed as Kāśiking
at the command of Indra he built the city of Vārāṇasī between the Gaṅgā and the southern bank of the Gomatī. The Haihayas again attacked Divodāsa
he fought for 1, 000 days, lost his army, left his capital, and fled away to the retreat of Bharadvāja, who was his priest, and performed a sacrifice, in consequence of which Pratardana was born to him. On the same day when Pratardana was born, he grew as great as a boy of 13 years, and mastered the Vedas and Dhanurveda, Bharadvāja (aided by Yoga) having entered into the prince and caused all the energy of the universe to enter his body (he was praised by bards and D-ṛ., etc.
description). Divodāsa installed Pratardana as yuvarāja and ordered him to march against the sons of Vītahavya. Pratardana speedily crossed the Gaṅgā and proceeded against the city of the Vītahavyas and slew them all. King Vītahavya fled away to the retreat of Bhṛgu. Pratardana followed in his footsteps and ordered Bhṛgu to surrender king Vītahavya. Bhṛgu said: “there is no kshatriya in this retreat
they who are here are all brahmans.” Pratardana returned home, and Vītahavya became a Br-ṛ. in consequence of Bhṛgu's statement. Vītahavya &gt
Gṛtsamada (V-ṛ., resembling Indra and, therefore, once afflicted by Dai.
alleged quotation from the Ṛgveda) &gt
Sutejas &gt
Varcas &gt
Vihavya &gt
Vitatya &gt
Satya &gt
Santa &gt
Ṛ. Śravas &gt
Tamas &gt
Prakāśa &gt
Vāgindra &gt
Pramati (B. ºmiº) (mastering the Vedas and Vedāṅgas) &gt
Rura (begotten upon Aps. Ghṛācī) &gt
Śunaka (begotten upon Pramadvarā) &gt
Śaunaka (XIII, 30).