[bharaṃ tanoti taṇ-ḍa] 1 N. of the son of Duṣyanta and Śakunta- lā, who became a universal monarch (cakravartin), India being called Bhā- ratavarṣa after him. He was one of the remote ancestors of the Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas; cf. S. 7. 33.

2 N. of a brother of Rāma, son of Kaikeyī, the young- est wife of Daśaratha. He was very pious and righteous, and was so much devoted to Rāma that when the latter prepared to go...