King Marutta : descendant of Manu Vaivaswata, who performed the first Ashwamedha yajña, & became known as a Chakravarti(n) Rājā, Emperor Etymologically, chakravarti means ‘wheels that can go anywhere’; hence a Chakravartin Raja is one whose horse-driven chariots (i.e. on Chakras, wheels), had driven unchallenged in all four directions thus defeating all the surrounding kings.
... have been none that ever became of the first importance. Five distinct times had these great congeries of nations been welded into Empire, twice by the Ixvaacous under Mandhata son of Yuvanuswa and King Marutta, afterwards by the Haihaya Arjouna Cartoverya, again by the Ixvaacou Bhogiratha and finally by the Kuru Bharata. That the first Kuru empire was the latest is evident not only from the Kurus being ...
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