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Bhāratas were a tribe mentioned in the Rigveda, especially in Mandala 3 attributed to the Bharata sage Vishvamitra. King Bharat was the son of Dushyant and Shakuntala, he was the one who spread the kingdom from himalya till the ocean , The country was named BHARAT after him. He was the one who announced in his court that life is not about living it , life is to fulfill ones duties. King has 3 duties i.e to protect his kingdom, to give justice and to give his throne to a right and just person.The minister asked the king to declare the crowned Prince of his Territory . King went to see Maha Rishi Kark to seek his advice on making any of his 9 sons Yuvraaj ( the prince who will be the next King). After a few days king declared that none of his son is capable of becoming a good and just king . Shakuntala asked him for a reason, in private and Bharat told her that he has a vast family i.e his (mob) Praja and all them are his sons as well as duty . It was the day when the first seed of the epic Mahabharat was sown on mud of Kurukshetra. one of his Successor was King Shantnu in whoes period the 3 principles lost their meaning. Scholars believe the Bharatas to be a Vedic tribe in Punjab in the second millennium B.C.E. In the "river hymn" RV 3.33, the entire Bharata rulers are described as crossing a river Yamuna. ''Bharatá'' is also used as a name of Agni (literally, "to be maintained", viz. the fire having to be kept alive by the care of men), and as a name of Rudra in RV 2.36.8.〔https://books.google.co.in/books?id=iSDakY97XckC&lpg=PA722&ots=ugJ9Ux-XZh&dq=Bharata%20Bhara%20%20burden&pg=PA722#v=onepage&q=Bharata%20Bhara%20%20burden&f=false〕 Mandala 7 (7.18 etc.) mentions the Bharatas as taking part in the Battle of the Ten Kings, where they are on the winning side. Due to the victory of the Bharata chieftain Sudas in this battle, the Bharata rulers were able to settle in the Kurukshetra area.〔ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE KURU STATE by Michael Witzel, Harvard University ()〕 They appear to have been successful in the early power-struggles between the various Aryan and non-Aryan rulers so that in post-Vedic (Epic) tradition, the Mahābhārata, the eponymous ancestor becomes Emperor Bharata, the ancient conqueror of all of India, and his ruler and kingdom is called Bhārata. The Bharata ruler later allied and merged with the Puru ruler, to form the Kuru ruler.〔National Council of Educational Research and Training, History Text Book, Part 1, India〕 "Bhārata" today is the official name of the Republic of India. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bhāratas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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