SURYAVAMSA SURANGI SAMRAJYAM🔗

Bhagavan Paramashiva

• Bhagavān Śrī Paramaśiva (परमͧशव) is the primordial Divinity (Bhagavān) in Hinduism.
• Śrī Paramaśiva is the Ultimate Reality and Cause, which is self-effulgent (svayamprakāśa), All-pervading, unchanging beyond time, space, form and causality.
• He is Eternal (nitya), Absolute imperishable source (aparināmi avyayam) of all that is. Paramaśiva, the Pure Consciousness (caitanya) is the Cosmic Principle of Śuddhādvaita*,* the Pure Oneness, who out of His own Will (icchā śakti) descends with His Cosmic Power, Parāśakti, as the Subjective Cosmos, as the 'Avatār or Incarnation' to celebrate His existence, to protect, govern, revive and expand the Supreme Sovereignty of the worlds and its living beings, ordaining the Cosmic Constitution.

Krunashini Devi - Kuladevata (main deity worshipped by a clan) of the Surangi Royal Lineage

Surangi kingdom is the Kingdom in which Incarnations descend as Kings. Surangi Samrajyam is called as "Devarajya Sampradaya". Here kings are worshipped as Gods and Gods descend as Kings

Surya Dev

• Surya (also known as Aditya) is the Sun God. He is the Supreme Soul who brings light and warmth to the world.
• Each day he travels across the sky in his golden chariot pulled by seven horses and driven by red Aruna, a personification of the reddish glow of the rising Sun.
• The God's most famous temple is at Konark in Orissa, north-east Bharat but he is worshipped across the Hindu subcontinent.
• Surya is known by many alternate names which include Savitr (the Nourisher), Bhaskara (Light-maker), Dinakara (Day-maker), Lokacaksuh (Eye of the World), Graharaja (King of the Constellations), and Sahasra-kirana (Of a 1,000 rays).

Vaivasvata Manu

• Vaivasvata Manu is known as the first human being and King of all mankind.
• According to Hindu cosmology, there are 14 Manvantaras (literally meaning the duration of a Manu, or his life span.) Each Manvantara is created and ruled by a specific Manu, who in turn is created by Brahma, the deity of Creation.
• Manu creates the world and all its species during that period of time. Each Manvantara lasts the lifetime of a Manu, upon whose death, Brahma creates another Manu to continue the cycle of Creation or Srishti.
• Manu is the author of The Manusmriti, also called Manava-dharma-shastra ("The Dharma Text of Manu"), which is the most authoritative of the books of the Hindu code (Dharma-shastra, like
• Vaivasvata Manu was the firsta law book).
• person to codify the Cosmic laws of the Universe into the governing laws of a Country.

• 1. Raja DINABANDHU Harishchandra Jagdev
• 2. Raja KESHAB RAJ Harishchandra Jagdev (1697-1715)
• 3. Raja MUKUND Harishchandra Jagdev
• 4. Raja KISHORE CHANDRA Chandra Harishchandra Jagdev (1876-1931)
• 5. Raja CHANDRACHUDA MANI Harishchandra Jagdev
• 6. Raja PURNA CHANDRA Deo Harishchandra Jagadev (1904-1933)
• 7. Raja KIRTI CHANDRA Deo Harishchandra Jagadev (1933-1993)
• 8. Raja HRUDAYA CHANDRA Deo Harishchandra Jagadev (1996-2004)
• 9. Rajasekara Arunachalam Annamalai Bhagavan Nithyananda Paramashivam Chandradeo Harishchandra Jagadev (2005-present)

King Ikshvaku

• Once, Shradhadev Manu sneezed violently. From his nostrils, a son was born. He was named Ikshvaku. Thus, Ikshvaku is the grandson of Vivasvan or Surya and the son of Vaivasvata Manu.
• He was the first prince of this lineage and eventually ruled from the Kosala Kingdom, today known as Awadh in the state of Uttar Pradesh along the banks of river Sarayu with Saketa present-day Ayodhya, as the capital.
• Ikshvaku is the first king who executed the Manusmrti or the laws of Hindu living which were composed by his father Manu. He ruled as Monarch at the beginning of the Satya Yuga - the first quarter of Time and the Golden age period.
• According to the Vishnu Purana, he had a hundred sons.

Lord Yama

• Yama is the Hindu God of death, king of all ancestors, and final judge on the destination of souls. Yama or Yamarāja, is also known as the 'Restrainer', Pretaraja or 'King of Ghosts', Dharmaraja or 'King of Justice', and as Daksinasapati is considered the regent of the South Quarter.
• He is responsible for good decision-making based on records of a person's deeds.
• In the Vedas, Yama is said to have been the first mortal who died. By virtue of precedence, he became the ruler of the departed, and is called "Lord of the Pitrs (all ancestors)".

King Vena and his son, Prithu

• Vena was a great king. However, he became evil and corrupt. The world became so gloomy and dark that the Earth-Goddess Bhooma Devi decided that she would not provide crops to humans anymore.
• She took the form of a cow and went into hiding. Meanwhile, a group of Rishis killed Vena out of anger. They then rubbed the thigh of his corpse, and took out all the evil from his body. Afterwards they rubbed Vena's arm, and the good Prithu emerged.
• Prithu was Vishnu incarnate, and as soon as he was born, Vishnu's Sharanga (bow) fell from heaven into his hands. However, Bhuma Devi still refused to give crops to people. But she finally yielded to Prithu, but in return Prithu was to be her eternal guardian. This is why Bhuma Devi is also known as Prithvi.

• King Yuvanashva was unable to have sons, and out of compassion, the sages in his kingdom decided to perform an Indra-Yajna (fire ritual) to enable him to have a son. However, out of thirst, he drank the sanctified water from the yajna which was intended for his wife.
• Thereafter, in due course of time, a son came out of the lower right side of Yuvanashva's abdomen. When the baby cried loudly for breast-milk, the brahmanas anxiously wondered, "Who will take care of this poor child?"
• Just then, Indra, who had been worshiped in the sacrifice, appeared, and after pacifying the baby, he put his index finger into its mouth and said, "You may drink me." By the mercy of the brahmanas, King Yuvanashva did not die after giving birth to the child. Thereafter, he performed very severe austerities at that place, and ultimately achieved liberation.

King Mandhatri

• Mandhata was born from His Father's abdomen, and when he was born, the sages were at a loss as to who should feed him. Indra, King of the Gods declared "He shall draw sustenance and desendance from me".
• Indra provided milk from the heaven to Manadhata. The milk began to accelerate the boy's growth. Within twelve days, he resembled a twelve-year-old boy who was thirteen cubits tall. Mandhata spontaneously acquired the entire knowledge of the Vedas and military sciences.
• Mandhata acquired an impenetrable armour, a quiver with an inexhaustible supply of arrows and the Ajagava bow (originally belonging to Shiva) which fell from the sky. Mandhata ascended the throne.
• The son of Yuvanashva was named Mandhata, and because he was the cause of fear for Ravana and other miscreants, Indra also gave him the name Trasadasyu.
• Mandhata became so powerful that he became emperor of the entire earth, consisting of seven islands.

King Trishanku

Since he had lived a righteous life, Satyavrata's soul deserved ascension to the heavens, but he wished to do so with his mortal body and requested his Guru Vasishta to perform the needful rites to achieve this goal. The yajnas (fire rituals) began and with the ascetic powers of the sage, the former King Trishanku started ascending to heaven.

Upon his arrival in heaven, the Devas were alarmed by this unnatural occurrence. Led by Indra, they refused to permit Trishanku to enter, and tossed him out. Trishanku began falling back to earth. In the course of a fight between Vishwamitra and the Devas, Vishwamitra created a new heaven for Trishanku. Alarmed, the Devas requested Vishwamitra that a mortal body ascending to heaven is unnatural, and that they only wished to prevent that. Vishwamitra acceded, but could not go back on his word to Trishanku.

Thus, he declared that the new heaven shall be called Trishanku's heaven and the king shall reside in this heaven from then on. He shall not supersede the command of Indra by ruling his own heaven, and to ensure that, the king shall reside upside down in his heaven.

• Once, Lord Vighnaraja (lord of obstacles) entered the body of Harishchandra, and started abusing sage Vishwamitra. This disturbed Vishwamitra's tapasya (penance), and destroyed all the knowledge that the sage had acquired during this tapasya.

Raja Harishchandra

• The king asked him what he wanted. In response, Vishwamitra said "Give me all that you have except yourself, your wife and your child." As he readied to leave his palace with his family, Vishwamitra demanded another donation. Harishchandra said that he did not have any possession left, but promised to make another donation within a month.
• In order to repay the sage, he sold even his wife and child to an elderly man, and gave this money to Vishwamitra. However, the sage was unhappy with the donation and demanded more.
• Harishchandra then decided to sell himself to the sage, who in turn sold him to a chandala (a low frequency being) for gold. He worked on a cremation ground and one day his son died of a snake bite.
• As Harishchandra began to prepare to pay the fee for cremating his son, the deity of Dharma, with Vishwamitra appeared before him and praised him for his integrity, inviting him to heaven. Harishchandra takes all the people of his kingdom and ascends to heaven.

• Sagara was the 39th king in the Suryavamsa lineage. He wanted to perform the Aswamedha Yajna (fire ritual) to assert his supremacy in the kingdom.

King Sagara

• However, Indra, the lord of Heaven, stole the horse of King Sagara and left it at the ashram of sage Kapila in Patala Loka - nether world!
• Sagara deputed his sixty thousand sons to go in search of it and bring it back! They discerned a cave in the northwest and a sage sitting in deep samadhi totally oblivious of his surroundings.
• To their pleasant shock and surprise, they saw the horse in pursuit of which they had travelled tirelessly and in despair! They mistook the sage for a thief who had stolen the horse! The sage was Kapila, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu himself! The moment he opened his eyes, all the sixty thousand sons of Sagara were reduced to a heap of ashes on account of the tremendous power of his tapas (penance)!
• King Sagara was In a dilemma. Finally, his grandson Amsumantha pacified sage Kapila and brought back a horse, thereby completing the yajna.

Bhagiratha

• Bhagiratha was a king of the Ikshvaku dynasty who brought the River Ganges, as the river goddess Ganga, to Earth from the heavens.
• When he became prince of Sagara Dynasty, learning the awful end of his forefathers, who were unable to attain region of gods, with a sorrowful heart made over his kingly duties to his minister, and went for practicing austerities to Himalayas.
• He did penance for a thousand years on the advice of his guru Trithala, to please Ganga, to gain the release of his 60,000 great-uncles from the curse of saint Kapila. Ganga told him if she will descend from the sky to the earth, the force of her fall will be difficult to sustain.
• She asked him to obtain the favour from Paramashiva, as no one except Him wii be able to sustain her. He then did severe penance for Paramashiva and requested Him such. Paramashiva granted him the boon, which eventually led to descent of the Goddess Ganga in the form of the river Ganges, to the earth, filling the sea.

King Ambarisha

• Ambarisha was the 46th king in the Suryavamsa lineage. He performed a yaga (yajna) with such great devotional fervour that Lord Vishnu was pleased to bless him with the Sudarshana Chakra (sacred discuss-weapon). Once, he performed a fast.
• The sage Durvasa agreed to the king's request to be his honoured guest, and asked the king to wait until he finished his bath in the river and returned.
• As the auspicious moment approached when the king had to break his fast to fulfil the vow of the vrata, Durvasa did not turn up. The king broke his fast by taking a Tulasi leaf with water, and waited for the arrival of sage Durvasa to offer him food.
• Durvasa was enraged, and created a demon to kill Ambarisha, out of a strand of his hair. Lord Narayana's Sudarshana intervened, destroyed the demon and started chasing Durvasa himself. Finally, Durvasa went to Ambarisha, who prayed to Lord Vishnu to recall the Sudarsana and save Durvasa.

King Kalmashapada

• King Kalmashapada was the 52nd king in the Suryavamsa lineage. While walking in the forest, he saw Sage Saktri, the eldest of the hundred sons of Sage Vasishta, coming from the opposite side. He did not move aside for the Brahmin as was customary.
• Instead, the king struck the sage with a whip. The sage cursed him to become a demon, a rakshasa.
• Seeing this, sage Viswamitra commanded a Rakshasa to enter the body of Kalmashapada.
• Then, a hungry Brahmin met him in the forest and begged him to give him some food. The king gave him some food including human flesh. He was cursed again by the Brahmana. Sometime after this, the king met Saktri and told him, "Because you cursed me to become a cannibal, I will practice my cannibalism on you by devouring you."
• He then killed Saktri and ate him up, like a tiger eating an animal it had killed. However, after much agony, Vashishta decided to free Kalmashapada from the clutches of the rakshasa and restored him to his kingdom.

King Anaranya

• King Anaranya was the 54th King in the Suryavamsa lineage. According to the Ramayana, many kings submitted to the Asura King of Lanka, Ravana, without fighting, but when Anaranya was challenged and summoned to submit, he chose to fight.
• He along with his army was defeated, and he was thrown away from his chariot.
• He cursed Ravana that one day lord Vishnu will take form as the prince of Ayodhya and will kill him and he died.
• Ravana put his foot on the prostrate body of Anaranya, and at this point the defeated king retorted that he had been beaten by fate, not by Ravana, and predicted the death of Ravana at the hands of Rama, a descendant of Anaranya.

King Raghu

• King Raghu, a prominent king from the Suryavamsa lineage was called the fast one, due to his chariot-driving abilities.
• So celebrated were the exploits of Raghu, that his dynasty itself came to be known as the Raghuvamsha or the Raghukula after him.
• Later, he performed Vishwajit Yajna (a powerful fire ritual) and gave all his wealth as Dāna (charity). When he asked sage Kautsa what to give him, he replied "your Seva (service) would suffice". Kautsa became furious when Raghu persisted repeatedly and said to him, "having learnt 14 Vidyas from me, you must give me 14 koti gold coins as Guru-Dakshina". Raghu, being a man of his words, asked him to rest in his palace and assured him of giving the Guru-Dakshina within a day.
• Raghu commanded his army to gear up for invasion of Loka of Kubera the following morning. When he was heading towards the Kubera Loka, his treasurer came to him and told him that Kubera, by the virtue of fear of Raghu, rained gold coins the previous night. Hence, Raghu gave those gold coins as Guru-Dakshina to Sage Kautsa and fulfilled his word.

King Dasharatha

• Dasharatha was a descendant of the Raghuvansha-Ikshvaku-Suryavansha dynasty and the Maharaja of Ayodhya as mentioned in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.
• Dasharatha was the son of Aja and Indumati. He had three wives: Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra and out of the union bore Rama (the incarnation of Vishnu and main figure in the Ramayana), Bharatha, Lakshmana, Shatrughna. King Dasarath was incarnation of Dronavasu Bramhin.
• Dasharatha performed a special putrakameshti yajna (powerful fire ritual) to beget sons, as all three of his wives were unable to bear children. Through the yajna were born Lord Rama to his eldest wife, Kausalya, Bharata to his second wife Kaikeyi, and Lakshmana and Shatrughana to Sumitra.
• Due to previously promised boons to Kaikeyi, Dasharatha is obliged to fulfil her wish for her son Bharata to be King, and for Lord Rama to be banished from the kingdom..
• Dasharatha is extremely distraught at having to banish his son, but being a man of his word, agrees to his wife's request. The turn of events during a period of 14 years see Rama crowned as King of Ayodhya.

Lord Rama

• Lord Rama, or Ramachandra is a much worshipped Incarnation and deity of Hinduism. He is the seventh avatar (incarnation) of the Lord Vishnu, one of his most popular incarnations along with Sri Krishna and Gautama Buddha.
• He is the most revered, worshipped, and well-known deity in Hinduism. The epic called Ramayana revolves around the events from Lord Rama's life which led to His defeat of the greatest asura king alive at the time, named Ravana.
• Ravana, the king of Lanka, kidnapped Sri Rama's consort, Sita. In pursuit of his wife, Lord Rama gathered a large army and defeated Ravana.
• Rama is known as the embodiment of the purest dharma and chastity to his principles.
• He was exiled from his kingdom due to a request from his stepmother, Kaikeyi, who wanted her own son Bharata to ascend the throne. Rama, his consort SIta, and brother Lakshmana spent 14 years in exile before returning to the kingdom of Ayodhya.

Lava and Kusha

• Lava and Kusha were the twin sons of Lord Rama and Sita. Sita was banished to the forest, as her purity was in question, and adhering to the Dharma of the kingdom, Lord Rama sent her away.
• She gave birth to Lava and Kusha in the ashram of Valmiki in Avani, where Lava and Kusha grew up.
• These sons grew up to be like their father resembling him in valor, beauty, and all the inspirational qualities. Maharshi Valmiki raised them as though they were his own sons. He taught them all the Vedic knowledge.
• Lord Rama performed an Ashwamedha Yaga (powerful fire ritual), where horses roamed around the entire country, and any king would capture the horses. When the horses returned to Ayodhya, Lava tied the horse to a tree. Together, Lava and Kusha defeated Shatrughna, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanuman and Jambavan - all the mightiest warriors in Ayodhya.
• Sri Ram then came to know that these were his own sons, and took them back to Ayodhya to ascend the throne after him.

Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha, also called the Shakyamuni Buddha was born into the Shakya clan, a community in the eastern Hindu subcontinent in the 5th century BCE. The Buddhist text, Buddhavamsa and Mahavamsa (II, 1-24) traces the origin of the Shakyas to king Okkaka (Pali equivalent to Sanskrit Ikshvaku).

He was born to a Hindu Kshatriya family, the son of Śuddhodana - a hereditary monarch and descendant of the Suryavansha (Solar dynasty) of Ikṣvāku. Gautama Buddha was the 140th King of the Suryavamsa.

At the age of 29, Gautama Buddha left his palace to meet his subjects. Touched by the human conditions that he saw, he started a deep spiritual quest.

At 35, while seated under a Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, Bharat, he attained enlightenment. He travelled far and wide and taught the Science of Realising The Truth through three teachings: The Three Universal Truths, The Four Noble Truths, and The Noble Eightfold Path. He left the body at 80. His teachings were absorbed into what is today called Buddhism.

AJITANATHA

Ajitnatha (literally meaning invincible) was the second Tirthankara of the present age - Avasarpini (descending half of the Cosmic Time Cycle) according to Jainism. He was born to King Jitashatru and Queen Vijaya at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku dynasty. According to Jain history, he became a Siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of his karma (unfulfilled actions and its consequences).

Ajinatha is associated with his Elephant emblem and Saptha-parna tree.

SAMBHAVANATHA

Sambhavanatha was the third Jain Tirthankara (omniscient teaching God) of the present Cosmic Cycle of Time (Avasarpini). Sambhavanatha was born to King Jitārī and Queen Susena at Sravasti. His birth date was the fourteenth day of the Margshrsha shukla month of the Hindu calendar. Like all Arihants (omniscient beings), Sambhavanatha at the end of his life destroyed all associated karmas (one's unfulfilled actions and their consequences) and attained moksha (liberation).

Sambavanatha is associated with the Horse emblem, Sala tree, Trimukha (three-faced) Yaksha and Prajnapthi & Duritari Yakshis (guardian deities).

According to the Jain text Uttarapurāṇa, Sambhavanatha possessed three types of knowledge from birth.

Sumatinatha was the fifth Jain Tirthankara of the present Cosmic Cycle of Time (Avasarpini). Sumatinatha was born to Kshatriya King Megha (Meghaprabha) and Queen Mangala (Sumangala) at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku dynasty. His Janma Kalyanak (birthday) was the eighth day of the Vaisakha Sudi month of the Jain calendar.

He attained Kevala Jnana (enlightened) under the Sala or Priyangu tree. According to Jain history, he became a Siddha, a liberated soul which has destroyed all of his karma (unfulfilled thoughts, words and actions and their consequences). Lord Sumithanatha is associated with the Heron (Krauncha) emblem, Priyangu tree, Tumburu (Purushadatta) Yaksha and Mahakala Yakshi (guardian deities).