Ikshvaku

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Ikshvaku
Chanting Brahmins and King Ikshwaku proceed to heaven.jpg
Chanting Brahmins and King Ikshvaku proceed to heaven
DynastyIkshvaku
FatherVaivaswata Manu
MotherShraddha
ReligionHinduism

Ikshvaku (Sanskrit; ikṣvāku),(devanagiri; इक्ष्वाकु ) was the first king of Kosala kingdom and one of the ten sons of Shraddhadeva Manu the first man on the earth . He was the founder and first king of the Ikshvaku dynasty, known as the "Suryavansha", and the kingdom of Kosala in ancient India.[1] He had a hundred sons,[2] among whom the eldest was Vikukshi. Another son of Ikshvaku's, named Nimi, founded the Kingdom of the Videhas.[3] Rama and the Buddha belonged to the Suryavansha or Ikshvaku dynasty.[4] Except for Munisuvrata and Neminatha, the remaining Jain Tirthankaras were royals of the Ikshvaku lineage.[citation needed]. He is mentioned in Vishnu Purana

In Jain texts it is mentioned that Lord Rishabhadeva is the same as King Ikshvaku (son of Manu, first man on planet Earth in current time period, out of past 50 years of Lord Brahma).

Origin[]

From Kashyapa, through Aditi, Vivaswan was generated, and from him came Shraddhadeva Manu, who was born from the womb of Sanjna. Shraddhadev's wife, Shraddha, gave birth to 10 sons, including Ikshvaku and Nriga. The Atharvaveda and Brahmanas associate the Ikshvakus with the non-Aryan people, that is they are different from the Vedic Aryans who composed hymns of the four Vedas.[5][6] F. E. Pargiter has equated the Ikshvakus with the Dravidians.[7] According to Franciscus Kupier, Manfred Mayrhofer and Levman the Iskvaku is derived from Munda name.[8][note 1]

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  1. ^ "The founder of the Sakya clan, King Ikṣvāku (Pāli: Okkāka) has a Munda name, suggesting that the Sakyas were at least bilingual (Kuiper 1991, 7;Mayrhofer 1992, vol. 1, 185). Many of the Sakya village names are believed to be non-IA in origin (Thomas 1960, 23), and the very word for town or city (nagara; cf.the Sakya village Nagakara, the locus of theCūḷasuññata Sutta ) is of Dravidian stock (Mayrhofer 1963, vol. 2, 125)." --- "The Sakya clan derive their ancestry from King Ikṣvāku, whose name is of Austro-Asiatic Munda origin."Levman, Bryan Geoffrey (1 January 2014). "Cultural Remnants of the Indigenous Peoples in the Buddhist Scriptures". equinoxpub. 30: 166. doi:10.1558/bsrv.v30i2.145. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

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  1. ^ Thapar 2013, p. 308-309.
  2. ^ John Garrett (1975). A Classical Dictionary of India. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distri. p. 259. GGKEY:YTLNG1DG7JN. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ^ Subodh Kapoor (2004). A Dictionary of Hinduism: Including Its Mythology, Religion, History, Literature, and Pantheon. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. p. 171. ISBN 978-81-7755-874-6. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  4. ^ Peter Scharf. Ramopakhyana – The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata: A Sanskrit Independent-Study Reader. Routledge, 2014. p. 559.
  5. ^ Indian History Congress. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Parts 1-2. pp. 32–33.
  6. ^ Ram Chandra Jain. Ethnology of Ancient Bhārata. Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 1970. p. 18.
  7. ^ Ram Chandra Jain. Ethnology of Ancient Bhārata. Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 1970. p. 21.
  8. ^ Levman, Bryan Geoffrey."Cultural Remnants of the Indigenous Peoples in the Buddhist Scriptures." Buddhist Studies Review ISSN (online) 1747-9681.

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