A flagpole intended to bring rains. Dreaming about a fallen Indradhwaja is considered an ill omen, as per Agnipurana Chapter 229.

As per Mahabharata Sabhaparva Chapter 38, this island was conquered by the king Sahasrababu.

A king who lived in Kritayuga and was a devotee of Vishnu. Once, the king visited the Purushottama temple in Odra, but couldn’t see the lord Jagannatha. The disappointed king decided to go to the Nila mountain and fast until death. But then a divine voice said that the lord would soon be visible to him. Indradyumna then conducted an ashwamedha and built a magnificent Vishnu temple with a Narasimha idol given by Narada. The king was not only visited by Jagannatha in his dreams, but was also told to make idols from the sugandhi tree that grew on the seashore. As per Skandapurana, the king made idols of Vishnu, Balarama, Sudarshana, Subhadra and installed them in the temple too.

A king belonging to the Ikshvaku clan.

The king Janaka’s father, as per Mahabharata Vanaparva Chapter 133 verse 4.

One of the sages who worshiped Yudhishtira during the Pandavas’ exile, as per Mahabharata Vanaparva Chapter 26 verse 22.

There was a king named Indradyumna during Krishna’s lifetime, and he was killed by Krishna, as per Mahabharata Vanaparva Chapter 12 verse 32.

A king born in Swayambhuvamanu’s dynasty. He ruled the Pandya kingdom.

Antecedents: Vishnu – Brahma – Swayambhuvamanu – Priyavrata – Agnidhra – Nabhi – Rishabha – Bharata – Sumati – Indradyumna.

Indradyumna, a devotee of Vishnu, left his kingdom to his children in old age and went to Malayadri to meditate. Once when he was deep in prayers, he didn’t notice Agastya approaching him. Agastya was furious and cursed Indradyumna to live as an elephant for a thousand years. The king got to know of this from his attendants and immediately begged Agastya for forgiveness. Agastya said that after a thousand years, Vishnu would appear before him, touch him and then the curse would be over. Indradyumna was immediately transformed into an elephant and began roaming the jungles. He finally reached Trikuta. At that time, a sage called Devala was meditating in that area. One day, a gandharva named Huhu passed by that way accompanied by a few apsaras. They began frolicking in the stream in front of Devala’s ashram. Devala was angry at Huhu for disturbing him, and cursed him into becoming a crocodile. Huhu lived in that stream, located in the Trikuta mountains, unchallenged. One day, Indradyumna, the elephant waded into the stream and the crocodile immediately caught him by the foot. This tussle is said to have lasted a thousand years, at the end of which they were both tired and started praying. Vishnu appeared with Garuda, separated them with his chakra and released them from the curses, as per Bhagavata Ashtamaskanda. Both of them gained entry to devaloka.

Later Indradyumna, while in devaloka, lost his karma and fell back to earth. He approached the sage Markandeya, who didn’t recognise him. The sage didn’t, but  took him to the Himalayas, to a chiranjeevi owl called Pravirakarna, who might have known him.  But the owl didn’t know him either, and together they went to the pool called Indradyumnam, where lived Nadijanghan, a crane who was an older chiranjeevi than him. The crane too said that he didn’t know Indradyumna, but in the pool was a tortoise who was a chiranjeevi even older than him, called Akupara.

Indradyumna asked the tortoise if he knew him. Akupara meditated for a while, and then said, with tears in his eyes, “How could i not know you? Your acts of kindness are famous. This very river is through an act of yours. As soon as these words were said, the chariot of the gods appeared, and Indradyumna was taken back to heaven, as per Mahabharata Vanaparva Chapter 199.

A lake, in which lived a crane called Nadijankha and a tortoise named Akupara. This lake was formed because of the cows donated by the king Indradyumna walking by, as per Mahabharata Aranyaparva Chapter 198. This is located near Gandhamadana, and was visited by the Pandavas, as per Mahabharata Adiparva Chapter 118 verse 18.

A yajna conducted for the purpose of getting children. The king Yuvanashwa conducted this, mistakenly consumed the final offering and became pregnant, as per Devibhagavata Saptamaskanda. See Maandaata.