Descendants of Lord Rama in the war of Mahabharata

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The connection between Ramayana and Mahabharata

The astronomical dating of the events in the two great historical texts of the ancient world, Ramayana and Mahabharata indicate that Ramayana took place at around 5000 BCE, while Mahabharata took place around 3000 BCE. So, it is but natural to ask, is there any mention about the descendants of Lord Rama in Mahabharata? Read on to unravel the mystery…

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Who did Rama’s descendants support?

In this blog you will find out who the descendants of Rama were in the era of Mahabharata, and what was their role in the Great War at Kurukshetra? Did they side with the Pandavas, or with the Kauravas or did they remain neutral? Let’s find out…

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Brothers of Rama

Lord Rama had three brothers. Lakshmana, Shatrughna and Bharata. Bharata founded the city of Takshashila, Taxila in modern Pakistan which later became the center of higher education in the ancient world with its majestic Takshashila University, one of the many great universities of ancient India. Lakshmana founded the city of Lakshmana Puri, modern day Luckhnow. Shatrughana cleared a forest called Madhuvana and founded the modern city of Mathura, the city in which Krishna was born during the times of Mahabharata.

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Children of Rama

Lord Rama had two sons Lava and Kusha. They were born at a place called Ramtirth or Rama Theertha, which is a famous pilgrimage in modern day Amritsar, 11 km from the city of Amritsar, in the state of Punjab. There is also a hut near the Ram Tirth temple here, where Maharshi Valmiki is said to have lived during the era of Ramayana.

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Luv (Lava) – Son of Rama

Lava is said to be the founder of the modern city of Lahore in Pakistan, originally called Lavapuri. Modern day Laos was originally named after Lava. Ramayana is very popular in Laos even today, and has its own local version of Ramayana called Phra Lak Phra Ram. Also the city of Lobpuri in Thailand, which is about 150 km from Bangkok, is named after Lava. Kalavarnadish, the king of Takshasila in 7th century founded this city in Thailand and named it after Lavpuri (Lahore) which later became Lobpuri.

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Kosala Kingdom

Ayodhya was the capital of the Kosala Kingdom during the times of Rama. After Rama, his sons Lava and Kusha inherited the kingdom which was divided into North Kosala, to the north of Ayodhya and East Kosala, to the east of Ayodhya. Shravasti was the capital of North Kosala. During the times of Gautama Buddha, Shravasti was one of the six largest cities in India. Kushavati, modern day Kushinagar, a town near Gorakhpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh was the capital of Kusha’s kingdom.

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Kosala Kingdom at the time of Mahabharata

Buddhaghosa, a 5th century Buddhist scholar says that the city had a population of 180 million during the times of Buddha. During the times of Mahabharata, Kosala Kingdom was split into five. The five Kosala kingdoms mentioned in Mahabharata are - North Kosala, South Kosala, East Kosala, Central Kosala.

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Kosala Kingdom between Central Kosala and South Kosala

Eastern Kosala was captured by the Magadha king Jarasandha, who was later killed by Bhima in the Kurukshetra war of Mahabharata. Central Kosala, the original Kosala ruled by Rama, still had Ayodhya as its capital during the times of Mahabharata and was ruled by Dheerghayaghnya. Central Kosala and North Kosala were conquered by the Pandava brother Bhima in his military expedition. Southern Kosala, the native kingdom of Rama’s mother Kausalaya, in modern day Madhya Pradesh, was conquered by the Pandava Brother Sahadeva in his military expedition.

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Descendant of Rama via Kusha in the Mahabharata War

The fifth Kosala Kingdom between Central Kosala and South Kosala was ruled by Brihadbala, a descendant of Kusha. The kingdom of Kashi was probably a part of this Kosala kingdom during the times of Mahabharata. The paternal grandmothers of Pandavas, Ambika and Ambalika, who were the daughters of the King of Kashi, are referred in Mahabharata sometimes as the princesses of Kashi, and sometimes as the princesses of Kosala.

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Brihadbala supported Kauravas

Brihadbala was the 28th descendant of Rama’s Son Kusha. And he fought on the side of the Kauravas in the Mahabharata war at Kurukshetra! Mahabharata, while describing the ratings Bhishma gave to each major warrior on their side before the war, says that the warrior skills of Brihadbala were rated to be one Ratha. The different ratings were Ratha, Athiratha, Maharatha, etc.

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Brihadbala’s role in Abhimanyu Vadh

On the thirteenth day of the Mahabharata war, Drona forms the Chakrya Vyuha formation, a seven-tier defensive spiral formation intended to capture Yudhishtira, the eldest of the Pandava brothers. A game plan had been already set to lure Arjuna away from the main battle field, as Arjuna was aware of the techniques of breaking this formation successfully. The Kaurava side hopes to capture Yudhishtira hoping that he would try to break this formation and would be captured as he is lacks the knowledge required to break it.

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Abhimanyu beheads Brihadbala

However, Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna, who had partial knowledge of the Chakryavyuha formation, takes up the challenge and enter the Chakrya Vyuha. It is in this battle that Brihadbala, along with Ashvaththaama, Karna, Kritavarma, Krupacharya, Drona pounce upon Abhimanyu at the same time violating the rules of the war, in an effort to kill the heroic son of Arjuna. Abhimanyu after killing the warriors on Brihadbala’s side, kills his charioteer, breaks his bow, cuts his flag and finally beheads Brihadbala.

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Shameful indeed!

The descendant of Lord Rama not only ends up on the wrong side in Mahabharatha, he also ends up being a part of the battle which violated the very code of conduct of a warrior. The battle against Abhimanyu is recorded as the most shameless violation of the ethics of war in which a defenseless warrior was attacked and killed by multiple big warriors through illicit means. The other such incident in the war being the killing of an unarmed Karna by Arjuna.

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Genealogy of Lord Rama after the Mahabharata War

The Genealogy of Lord Rama after the Mahabharata war is recorded as follows in the Puranas. The last in the list, Sumitra was defeated by MahaPadma Nanda, the founder of the famous Nanda dynasty with Magadha as its capital. The descendants of MahaPadma Nanda were later over thrown by Chandragupta Maurya who went on to form one of the greatest empires in history, the Mauryan Empire.

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Genealogy of Lord Rama after the Mahabharata War

1. Brihadbala 2. Brihatkshaya 3. Urukshaya 4. Vatsavyuha 5. Prativyoma 6. Divakara 7. Sahadeva 8. Brihadashva 9. Bhanuratha 10. Pratitashva 11. Supratika 12. Marudeva 13. Sunakshatra 14. Kinnara 15. Antariksha 16. Suvarna 17. Sumitra Amitrajit 18. Dharmin 19. Kritanjaya 20. Sanjaya Mahakosala 21. Prasenajit 22. Kshudraka 23. Kulaka 24. Suratha 25. Sumitra

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Linage of Lord Rama till Brihadbala

This is the lineage of Lord Rama till Brihadbala. To see a lineage of Lord Rama’s ancestors in the Ikshvaku lineage, read about Varanasi, the oldest continuously inhabited city on Earth. 1. Lord Rama 2. Kusha 3. Atithi 4. Nishadha 5. Nala 6. Nabhas 7. Pundarika 8. Kshemadhanvan 9. Devanika 10. Ahinagu 11. Paripatra 12. Dala 13. Uktha 14. Vajranabha 15. Shankhana 16. Vyushitashva 17. Vishvasaha 18. Hiranyanabha 19. Pushya 20. Dhruvasandhi 21. Agnivarna 22. Shighra 23. Maru 24. Prasushruta 25. Susandhi 26. Amarsha 27. Vishrutavanta 28. Brihadbala

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Mahabharata and Ramayana: Ancient nuclear wars?

Is man on the threshold of a new world or merely stuck on a circular treadmill repeating the doomed lessons from history which he never seems to learn? A growing number of scholars believe the world’s macabre fascination with nuclear war is just the latest repeat in a series of blunders human technology seems obsessed with repeating. Ancient tales speak of flying vimanas. Vimanas were real vehicles and the origin of the ‘Aeroplanes.’ Great wars were described in early religious texts.

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Hi-tech weapons

Weapons could literally level the land like a moving force field. In ancient India, we find words for certain measurements of length; one was the distance of light-years and one was the length of an atom. Only a society that possessed nuclear energy would have the need for such words. When Oppenheimer said ‘I am become the destroyer of worlds,’ he was quoting from these ancient books. Believe it or not, the deserts on a number of continents today are the result of (prehistoric) nuclear warfare.

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Sky chariots and divine weapons

Historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots and final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a section of the Mahabharata. “The passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of trees,” says Ganguli.

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Proofs from Mahabharata

Consider these verses from the ancient Mahabharata: …a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as the thousand suns Rose in all its splendour… a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds… …the cloud of smoke rising after its first explosion formed into expanding round circles like the opening of giant parasols… ..it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.

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Nuclear weapon

Until the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, modern mankind could not imagine any weapon as horrible and devastating as those described in the ancient Indian texts. Yet, they very accurately described the effects of an atomic explosion. Radioactive poisoning will make hair and nails fall out. Immersing oneself in water gives some respite, though it is not a cure.

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What the archeologists discovered

When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city as if doom had come so suddenly they could not get to their houses. All the skeletons were flattened to the ground. These skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing?

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What the archeologists discovered

Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? Furthermore, there is no apparent cause of a physically violent death. These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. Other cities have been found in northern India that show indications of explosions of great magnitude.

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Strange findings

One such city, found between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, seems to have been subjected to intense heat. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! And since there is no indication of a volcanic eruption at Mohenjo-Daro or at the other cities, the intense heat to melt clay vessels can only be explained by an atomic blast or some other unknown weapon. The cities were wiped out entirely.

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Nuclear war and Ramayana

There is evidence that the Rama empire was devastated by nuclear war. The Indus valley is now the Thar desert, and the site of the radioactive ash found west of Jodhpur is around there. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built. It had been established that there was a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction.

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Nuclear war and Ramayana

The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators’ gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people.

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Nuclear war and Ramayana

One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945. Another curious sign of an ancient nuclear war in India is a giant crater near Bombay (above). The nearly circular 2,154-metre-diameter Lonar crater, located 400 kilometers northeast of Mumbai and aged at less than 50,000 years old, could be related to nuclear warfare of antiquity. No trace of any meteoric material, etc., has been found at the site or in the vicinity, and this is the world’s only known “impact” crater in basalt.

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