The Nishadha kingdom
(
IAST: Niṣadha) was a tribe of
ancient India
According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by m ...
that lived in a country of the same name
History
Veerasena was a king of the Nishadha kingdom, and the father of
Nala.
Nala, the son of Veerasena, became the king after his father. He was the husband of
Damayanti
''Damayanti'' (Sanskrit: दमयंती) is a character in a love story found in the Vana Parva book of the Mahabharata. She was the daughter of Bhima (not the Pandava one) and a princess of the Vidarbha Kingdom, who married King Nala of ...
, and their story is told in the
Mahabharata
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the s ...
.
References
External links
The Naishadha-charitaEnglish translation by K. K. Handiqui
roofread(includes glossary)
Indo-Aryan peoples
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