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Shurasena (also written as Surasena, Shoorsen, Shursen, Shoorsaini, Shoorseni)(Sanskrit: शूरसेन, Śūrasena) was an ancient Yadava ruler of Mathura[1][2][3] after whom the Surasena Kingdom or mahajanpada and the Yadava sept of Surasenas or Shoorsainis [4][5][6] were named. According to a tradition, found in the Linga Purana (I.68.19), Shurasena was son of Kartavirya Arjuna. According to another tradition found in the Ramayana (VII.62.6) and the Vishnu Purana (IV.4.46), Shurasena was son of Shatrughna, brother of Rama.[7] According to the Devibhagavata Purana (IV.1.2), Shurasena was father of Vasudeva (father of Krishna).[8] He is extensively mentioned in both the Mahabharata and the Puranas as the father of Vasudeva (father of Krishna) and Pŗtha or Kunti (mother of Pandava).[9] Several Indian tribes such as Sainis of Punjab,[10] Bhatis, Jadejas, some Meo clans of Rajput descent, etc. trace their origin to the Yadava tribe of Shoorsainis or Surasenas named after this eponymous Yaduvanshi king. Likely Ancestor of Porus English historian James Tod considered Maharaja Shurasena to be an ancestor of king Porus: "Puru became the patronymic of this branch of the Lunar race. Of this Alexander's historians made Porus. The Suraseni of Methoras (descendants of the Soor Sen of Mathura) were all Purus, the Prasioi of Megasthenes...How invaluable such remnants of ancient race of Harikula! How refreshing to the mind yet to discover, amidst the ruins on the Yamuna, Hecules (Baldeva, god of strength) retaining his club and lion's hide, standing on his pedestal at Baldeo, and yet worshipped by Suraseni! This was name given to a large tract of country round Mathura, or rather round Surpura, the ancient capital founded by Surasena, the grandfather of the Indian brother-deities, Krishna and Baldeva " —James Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan [11] This view has been treated as more than just probable by some other scholars[who?] who have also linked Porus to the tribe tracing its origin from Yaduvanshi king Shurasena.[12][13] |
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