candravaṃṣa | चन्द्रवंष | candravaMSa
candra—vaṃṣa | चन्द्र—वंष | m. the lunar race of kings (2nd great line of royal dynasties, the progenitor of which was Soma the Moon, child of the Ṛṣi Atri and father of Budha [Mercury, cf. candra-ja | चन्द्र-ज |]; the latter married Iḻā, daughter of the solar king Ikṣvāku, and had by her a son, Aila or Purūravas; this last had a son by Urvaśī, named Āyus, from whom came Nahuṣa, father of Yayāti; the latter had two sons, Puru and Yadu, from whom proceeded the two branches of the lunar line; in that of Yadu was born Kṛṣṇa and Bala-rāma; in that of Puru came Duṣyanta, hero of the Śakuntalā and father of the great Bharata; 9th from Bharata came Kuru, and 14th from him Śāntanu, who had a son Vicitra-vīrya and a step-son Vyāsa; the latter married the two widows of his half-brother, and had by them Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Pāṇḍu, the wars of whose sons form the subject of the MBh.) (cf. sūrya-v˚ | सूर्य-व्˚ |.)