Suryavanshi clan

Suryavansha (Suryavam(n)sham or Solar Dynasty) is a mythological dynasty of ancient India. The term Suryavanshi refers to a person belonging to Suryvansha dynasty. Raghuvanshi is a offshoot dynasty borne out of Suryavanshi clan.

The Puranas, particularly the Vishnu Purana, the Ramayana of Valmiki and the Mahabharata of Vyasa all contain accounts of this dynasty.

The Raghuvansha of Kalidasa also mentions the names of some of the kings of this dynasty.

The following is a list, in chronological order, of some of the prominent monarchs of the dynasty;

The Genealogy of Rama (ancestors as well as descendants) is found in Book IV of Vishnu Purana, the Shrimad Bhagavatam and the Brahma Purana.

Chapter 1 of Vishnupurana mentions that Brahma created Daksha out of his thumb. Daksha had a daughter Aditi, who was mother of Sun. From the Sun was born Manu. Since the Sun-god was Manu's father, his lineage came to be known as the Suryavansha(the descendants of Sun). They then happened to settle down in south of India in a small town called Chintamani and their family then came to be popularly called as Kataris.

Manu had 60 sons of whom 50 perished quarreling with one another. Ten sons survived, one of whom was Ikshvaku. The Brahma Purana (Chapters 7 and 8) provides details on Manu's 10 sons and their descendants as follows:

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