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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 9: Chapter 6: Verses 17-34
The posterity of ikswaku : the stories of Mandhata and the sage Saubhari
His fight with the Daityas was very close and thrilling and he despatched with his arrows to (the abode of) Yama (all) the Daityas that encountered him on the battle-field. Quitting the range of flight of his shafts, which was hot as the fire at the time of final dissolution, the Daityas, who were being (severely) struck (all the time), fled to their home (Patala). Having conquered the town (of the Daityas), (so) full of splendour, as well as all the wealth (contained in it), that royal sage made it over to Indra (the wielder of the thunderbolt). It was for these reasons that he was called by a number of names (Indravaha, Kakutstha and Puranjaya). The son of Puranjaya was Anena (the sinless) and Prthu was the son of Anena. From (the loins of) Prthu sprang up Viswarandhi and Candra was born of Viswarandhi; and Yuvanaswa was the son of Candra. The son of Yuvanaswa was Sabasta, by whom the town of Sabasti was built; while Brhadaswa was the son of Sabasta and of the former, Kuvalayaswa was born. With a view to obliging the sage Utanka, the powerful Kuvalayaswa, surrounded (accompanied) by his twenty-one thousand sons, killed a demon; Dhundhu by name, and (thereby) became known as Dhundhumara (the slayer of Dhundhu). (Almost) all the aforesaid sons of Dhundhumara, however, were burnt up by the fire that issued from the mouth of Dhundhu; only three, viz., Drdhaswa, Kapilaswa and Bhadraswa were left (alive), 0 Pariksit (a scion of Bharata)! Haryaswa was the son of Drdhaswa, while that of Haryaswa was called Nikumbha. Barhanaswa was the son of Nikumbha; Krsawa, of Barhanaswa; and Senajit was the son of Krsaswa. senajit's son was Yuvanaswa. Being issueless and (therefore) full of despair, the latter (however) retired to a forest (hermitage) alongwith his hundred wives. The sages (of that hermitage) were (very) compassionate by nature. Lo ! with (great) concentration of mind they conducted on his behalf a sacrifice intended to propitiate Indra (the Lord of paradise). Feeling thirsty at night, the king (Yuvanaswa) entered their sacrificial hut and, finding the Brahmanas (in charge of the sacrifice) asleep, drank the water (that had been) consecrated with Mantras (and reserved for the principal queen) himself. Seeing the (sacrificial) pitcher without water when they got up (in the early hours), 0 king, the priests now enquired (of the king) whose work it was that the water capable of producing a male child had been quaffed. Having presently come to know that the water had been drunk by the king (himself) as impelled by Providence, they offered salutation to the Almighty Lord, saying: "Oh, the power of destiny (alone) is (the real) strength I" Then, when the time came (i. e., after a period of nine months) a son, (who was) destined to be a rular of the (entire) globe, was born, splitting open, it is said, the right pelvic region of king Yuvanaswa. When the babe cried much (for being suckled) and the Brahmanas anxiously inquired: "Whom will this prince suck?", Indra put into the babe's mouth his index finger (dripping with nectar), saying "The babe will suck me (Marti Dhata); do not cry, my child !" (Hence the babe became known as Mandhata). The father of the babe did not die by the grace of the Brahmanas and the gods (even though he had his pelvic region split up). (Nay,) he forthwith attained perfection (final beatitude) in that very hermitage through asceticism. Indra for his part gave him, O dear Pariksit, the name of Trasaddasyu (the terror of miscreants) inasmuch as villains like Ravana (the demon king of Lanka, who was subsequently killed by Lord Sri Rama, born in that very line) were (much) afraid of him and felt (greatly) agitated (because of him). Powerful through the might of the immortal Lord, Mandhata, son of Yuvanawa, ruled the (entire) globe consisting of the seven Dwipas (main divisions) as its one supreme Lord.
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