Brihadbala (, ) is a king mentioned in Hinduism, including the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is also known by the name Srutayu according to the Linga Purana. He is described to be the last king of the Kosala Kingdom. In the Kurukshetra War, Brihadbala fought for the Kauravas and was killed by Abhimanyu. his son was Barhināman who ruled ayodhya after him.
Brihadbala (, ) is a king mentioned in Hinduism, including the Hindu epic Mahabharata. He is also known by the name Srutayu according to the Linga Purana. He is described to be the last king of the Kosala Kingdom. In the Kurukshetra War, Brihadbala fought for the Kauravas and was killed by Abhimanyu. his son was Barhināman who ruled ayodhya after him.
==Legend== According to the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavata Purana, Brihadbala is a descendant of Rama on Kusha's side, and belongs to the Suryavamsha (Solar dynasty). Makhan Jha, in his Anthropology of Ancient Hindu Kingdoms: A Study in Civilizational Perspective claims that Brihadbala is the fifteenth king after Rama. Brihadbala is considered to be the last king of the line of Ikshvaku; the dynasty spanned 31-32 generations between Rama and him.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).