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Ugrasena became king of Mathur\u0101pur\u012b. His Kingship was not a hereditary acquisition. There is a story behind it. In olden days, in the plateau of K\u0101lind\u012b there was a famous place called Madhuvana. The place was called so because it was the abode of an Asura named Madhu. Madhu had a son, Lava\u1e47a. \u015aatrughna killed him as he was a very troublesome fellow and a thorn on the side of the Devas. \u015aatrughna then established a beautiful kingdom there and ruled it. He named it Mathur\u0101. After the death of \u015aatrughna his two sons ruled Mathur\u0101. Then, when the Solar dynasty came to its end, Mathur\u0101 came under the Y\u0101davas. A Y\u0101dava king called \u015a\u016brasena ruled over the kingdom. Vasudeva, father of \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was the son of \u015a\u016brasena. After the death of his father Vasudeva took up the profession of herding cows, and therefore Ugrasena, another king of the Y\u0101dava dynasty had to become king of Mathur\u0101. (Dev\u012b Bh\u0101gavata, 4th Skandha).<\/span><\/p>\n There is a common belief that Ka\u1e43sa was the son of Ugrasena. But, the Bh\u0101gavata relates the following to the effect that Ka\u1e43sa was born to a Gandharva called Dramila of Ugrasena\u2019s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n When once Ugrasena\u2019s wife was in her monthly periods, she walked in the forest with her companions. A Gandharva called Dramila saw her then, felt attracted by her and made her pregnant. Angered at this, she cursed Dramila thus: “Since you have procreated a son in me, while I am in my periods this son will be killed by a boy born in my husband\u2019s family.” Ka\u1e43sa was the son born to her in the above manner. Ka\u1e43sa ascended the throne after putting Ugrasena in prison. According to the curse of Ugrasena\u2019s wife, \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was born in Ugrasena\u2019s family and he killed Ka\u1e43sa. N\u0101rada had informed Ka\u1e43sa of the Dramila interlude told this story secretly to Akr\u016bra when the latter was deputed by him to invite K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a to the dhanur yaj\u00f1a. (Bh\u0101gavata, 10th Skandha).<\/span><\/p>\n The name \u0100huka.<\/span><\/p>\n Genealogy states that Ugrasena was the son of \u0100huka. But, in certain contexts Ugrasena is called \u0100huka also. “Afterwards we made \u0100huka-Ugrasena King…” (Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata Udyoga Parva, Chapter 128, Verse 39).<\/span><\/p>\n Ugrasena imprisoned.<\/span><\/p>\n Vasudeva, father of \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a was Ugrasena\u2019s minister. Ka\u1e43sa, when he attained majority imprisoned Ugrasena and became himself king. (Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata Sabh\u0101 Parva, Chapter 22).<\/span><\/p>\n Ugrasena regained kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a killed Ka\u1e43sa with the permission of Ugrasena and made him king again.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n #ugrasena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ugrasena became king of Mathur\u0101pur\u012b. His Kingship was not a hereditary acquisition. There is a story behind it. In olden days, in the plateau of K\u0101lind\u012b there was a famous place called Madhuvana. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":10357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-area2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 20:21:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}