Brihadratha reported to be the first king.
His third successor was Somapi, the first of the Barhadrathas.
1300 Somapi, the first of the Barhadratha dynasty.
There are about thirty kings of this dynasty. The last one, Ripunjaya, dies about 800 B.C. They rule at Rajagriha.
1400 Kuru, evidently the first dynastic king of the Bharatas.
The name of the royal family passes over to the people, and they are henceforth known as the Kurus.
The Kurus are the first to establish extensive dominion over the tribes of the Upper Ganges, and they drive eastward the tribes which were once united to them and had followed them into the Jumna valley,—the Kosalas, Angas, Videhas, and Magadhas.
It is the struggles of these tribes against the Kurus which are described in the Mahabharata.
The Pandus, a younger race than the Kurus, and who have become prominent among the Panchalas, rise in rebellion. The Pandus have many allies. The Kurus disappear in a great war shortly before 1200 B.C., and the kings of Pandu ascend the throne of Hastinapura. They hold it for thirty generations, governing at Hastinapura.
1200 Shortly after the great war, Parikshit comes to the united Kuru (Bharata)—Pandu (Panchala) throne. He reigns sixty years in Hastinapura, and dies (according to tradition) from the bite of a snake.