{"id":4329,"date":"2011-03-23T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2011-03-23T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:46:31","slug":"rituparna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/2011\/03\/23\/rituparna\/","title":{"rendered":"Rituparna"},"content":{"rendered":"

A king belonging to the Ikshvaku dynasty.<\/p>\n

Antecedents: Vishnu \u2013 Brahma \u2013 Marichi \u2013 Kashyapa \u2013 Vivasvan \u2013 Vaivasvatamanu \u2013 Ikshvaku \u2013 Vikukshi -Shashada \u2013 Puranjaya \u2013 Kukulstha \u2013 Anenas \u2013 Pridhulashwa \u2013 Prasenjit \u2013 Yuvanashwa \u2013 Maandaata \u2013 Purukutsa \u2013 Trasadasyu \u2013 Anaranya \u2013 Aryashwa \u2013 Vasumanas \u2013 Sudhanva \u2013 Trairyaruna \u2013 Satyavrata \u2013 Trishanku \u2013 Harishchandra \u2013 Rohitashwa \u2013 Harita \u2013 Chunchu \u2013 Sudeva \u2013 Bharuka \u2013 Bahuka \u2013 Sagara \u2013 Asamanjas \u2013 Amshuman -Dilipa \u2013 Bhageeratha \u2013 Shrutanada \u2013 Sindhudweepa \u2013 Ayutayus \u2013 Rituparna<\/p>\n

When Nala was roaming in the forest, separated from Damayanti, Karkodaka bit him and transformed his appearance, but gave him a shawl to revert to his original self whenever he desired. As per Karkodaka’s advice, Nala went as Bahuka to the court of Rituparna, the king of Ayodhya, and stayed there as his charioteer. He reached the court on the tenth day of his exile. He had acquired the knowledge of Ashwahridaya, a mantra to increase the speed of horses.\u00a0 Rituparna realised this, gave him hundred gold coins and made him head charioteer with 2 assistants – Varshneya and Jivala as per Mahabharata Aranyaparva Chapter 67.<\/p>\n

Damayanti got to know that Nala was in Rituparna’s court via the messenger Parnada. To lure him out, Damayanti sent a message to Rituparna via a brahmin called Sudeva asking him to attend her marriage the next day. Rituparna asked Bahuka to get him there fast. On the way, Rituparna\u2019s cloak accidentally fell off. Rituparna asked Nala to stop the chariot, but Nala informed him that the chariot had already crossed a yojana in a second. On seeing a huge tree in the forest, the king informed Nala that that it had 5 crore leaves and 2095 fruits. Nala was amazed. They both confided \u2013 Nala was able to drive the chariot with such speed because of the Ashwahridaya mantra, and the king was able to know the number of leaves and fruits because of the Akshahridaya mantra. They taught each other the mantras.<\/p>\n

They reached Vidarbha where Damayanti got Nala to reveal himself. Rituparna returned the next day as per Mahabharata Vanaparva Chapter 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A king belonging to the Ikshvaku dynasty. Antecedents: Vishnu \u2013 Brahma \u2013 Marichi \u2013 Kashyapa \u2013 Vivasvan \u2013 Vaivasvatamanu \u2013 Ikshvaku \u2013 Vikukshi -Shashada \u2013 Puranjaya \u2013 Kukulstha \u2013 Anenas \u2013 Pridhulashwa \u2013 Prasenjit \u2013 Yuvanashwa \u2013 Maandaata \u2013 Purukutsa … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manuscrypts.com\/myth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}