Nahusha : son of Ayus & father of Yayāti. By sacrifices, austere self-restraint, & valour he acquired sovereignty of the three worlds. He then became very proud, & had himself carried through the air in his palanquin by the Saptarishis, spurring on shouting sarpa, sarpa (move quickly). By the curse of Agastya, one of those seven Rishis Nahusha to the earth & became a snake. Thanks to Agastya’s concession after some thousands of years he was redeemed from the curse by Yudhishthīra.
... Suhotra 83.Pravīra 61. Sudhanvan 84. Prachinvant 62. Kuru 85. Janamejaya I 63. Sarhvarana 86.Pūru 64. Rksha 87. Yayati 65. Ajamidha 88. Nahusha 66. Hastin 89. Āyu 67. Suhotra 90.Purūravas 68. Brihatshatra 91. Budha 69. Bhuvamanyu 92. Manu Beyond Vaivasvata, the collated picture in outline... 14 names are: (1) Antardhana, (2) Havirdhāna, (3) Prachina-barhisha, (4) Prachetas, (5) Daksha, (6) Kaśyapa, (7) Vivasvata, (8) Manu Vaivasvata, (9) Budha (for Ilā), (10) Pururavas (11) Ayu, (12) Nahusha, (13) Yayati, (14) Pūru. But Pūru, the 14th successor, is not the only son of Yayati: we have named him alone because through him we arrive ultimately at the Magadhan line. Pusalker,' drawing upon ...
... and kings are the spice of his banquet, drinking the red wine of life and death, while on the marble floor at his feet are strewn like flowers the images of the same stars that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the splendours of Yayati, that saw Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib and the Egyptian Pharaohs, Pompey's head hewn off on the sands of Egypt and Caesar bleeding at Pompey's sculptured ...
... Nāgārjuna, 520 Nāgārjunikonda inscriptions, 374, 419, 551-2 Nāgārnika, 473 Nāgas. 188 Nāgasena, 190, 537, 539 Nahapāna, 54, 182, 467, 468-70. 477, 479, 521, 571, 595 Nahusha, 96 Nakhakutta, 182, 184 Nakhapāna-jah, 184 Nakhavam/Nakhapana/Nakhavant, 182 'Nakhavan', 191, 192 Naksh-i-Rustam inscription of Darius. 460-61 NakshattraMagha ...
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