Figure South Asian traditions
Dasharatha
दशरथः sa दशरथ hi தசரதன் ta
Father of Rama
- Child of Aja and Kushik
- Married to Kauśalyā, Kaikeyi, Sumitra
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- Dates unrecorded king jurisdiction: Ayodhya
Family
The family of Dasharatha
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 12
Kinship in an account 1
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Family 11
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Aja 38th king in the Solar Dynasty
- child of (father) Kushik
- of the house Solar dynasty Hindu mythological dynasty
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parent of (father) Bharata Rama's brother -
parent of (father) Lakshmana An incarnation of Sheshnaga, The younger and most beloved brother of Lord Rama -
parent of (child) Rama greatest and seventh incarnation of God, hero of the Ramayana, protector of Dharma - parent of (child) Shanta character in the Ramayana
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parent of (father) Shatrughna Rama's brother - married to Kaikeyi
- married to Kauśalyā Queen of Ayodhyā and mother of Rāma
- married to Sumitra
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Dasharatha connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
13 statements on this record
- 11 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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