The Nishadha
(
IAST
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a transliteration scheme that allows the lossless romanisation of Brahmic family, Indic scripts as employed by Sanskrit and related Indic languages. It is based on a scheme that ...
: Niṣadha) was a tribe of
ancient India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentism, Sedentariness began in South Asia around 7000 BCE; ...
that lived in a country of the same name.
History
Veerasena was a king of the Nishadha kingdom, and the father of
Nala
Nala () is a legendary king of ancient Nishadha kingdom and the central protagonist of the '' Nalopakhyana'', a sub-narrative within the Indian epic '' Mahabharata'', found in its third book, '' Vana Parva'' (Book of the Forest). He is renown ...
.
Nala
Nala () is a legendary king of ancient Nishadha kingdom and the central protagonist of the '' Nalopakhyana'', a sub-narrative within the Indian epic '' Mahabharata'', found in its third book, '' Vana Parva'' (Book of the Forest). He is renown ...
, the son of Veerasena, became the king after his father. He was the husband of
Damayanti
Damayanti () is a heroine in ancient Indian literature, primarily known for her role in the episode of ''Nala and Damayanti, Nalopakhyana'', which is embedded within the ''Vana Parva'' (the third book) of the epic ''Mahabharata'' (c. 400 BCE – ...
, and their story is told in the
Mahabharata
The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...
.
Their story is also told in
Shriharsha's sanskrit epic named
Naishadha Charita.
See also
* ''
Nala and Damayanti
''Nala and Damayanti'', also known as ''Nalopakhyana'' (Sanskrit title: नलोपाख्यान ''Nalopākhyāna'', i.e., "Episode of Nala"), is an episode from the Culture of India, Indian epic ''Mahabharata''. It is about King Nala and h ...
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References
External links
The Naishadha-charitaEnglish translation by K. K. Handiqui
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Indo-Aryan peoples
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