Bahu ( sa, बाहु) or Bahuka ( sa, बाहुक, links=no) was a king of the
Ikshvaku dynasty
The Solar dynasty (IAST: Suryavaṃśa or Ravivaṃśa in Sanskrit) or the Ikshvaku dynasty was founded by the legendary king Ikshvaku.Geography of Rigvedic India, M.L. Bhargava, Lucknow 1964, pp. 15-18, 46-49, 92-98, 100-/1, 136 The dynasty is ...
or the
Suryavamsha (solar dynasty). According to the
Puranas, he was son of Vrika. But the
Ramayana mentions him as Asita, son of Bharata. According to this text, he had two queens, one of them was Kalindi. He was vanquished and driven out of his country by the tribes of
Haihayas and
Talajanghas and took refuge in the forest near the hermitage of Agni, a descendant of Urva. His son, Gurgaon
Sagara was born in this hermitage.
[Misra, V.S. (2007). ''Ancient Indian Dynasties'', Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, , pp. 231-2.]
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References
*Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology
Characters in Hindu mythology
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