A great king, who was son of Parikshit and great grandson of Arjuna. It was to this king that the Mahabharata was recited by Vaisampayan and the kin... more

the son of emperor P a r î k c h i t who offered all snakes in the fire reacting on T a k s h a k a who had killed his father (S.B. 12.6: 16).

Emperor Janamejaya (Sanskrit: जनमेजय) was the son of Maharaja Parikshit and great-grandson of Arjuna the valiant warrior hero of the Mahabharata epic. He took up the Kuru throne following the death of father. His significance comes as the listener of the first narration of the Mahabharata, narrated by Vaishampayana, student of Vyaasa.