Dasharatha

Dasharatha (Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST Daśaratha, Tibetan: ཤིང་རྟ་བཅུ་པ, Khmer: Dasarath, Malay: Dasarata, Burmese: Dasagiri, Yuan: Dattaratthah, Tamil: Tiyataran, Thai: Thotsorot, Lao: Thotarot, Chinese: 十车王)[1][2] was a king of Ayodhya of the Ikshvaku dynasty whose life story is narrated principally in the Hindu epic Ramayana. He was a descendant of Raghu and was the father of Rama, the heroic prince of the Ramayana and an Avatara of the god Vishnu according to Hindu tradition. Dasharatha had three wives namely, Kaushalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi. Rama was the son of Kaushalya, Lakshman and Shatrughna were the sons of Sumitra, and Bharata was the son of Kaikeyi.

Dasharatha had a daughter, Shanta, by his wife Kaushalya. She was the eldest of all his children and married to Rishi Shreengi.

References

  1. ^ Singaravelu Sachithanantham (2004), The Ramayana Tradition in Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur: University Malaya Press, ISBN 983-100-234-2 
  2. ^ 印度两大史诗研究, ISBN 7-301-04897-1
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