Janamejaya

Janamejaya was a Kuru king of the late Vedic period, son of Parikshit, remembered in the Brahmanas as a performer of the horse sacrifice. Under him and his father the Kuru realm became the leading power of northern India. In the Mahabharata he is the king to whom the epic is first recited, during the great snake sacrifice he held to avenge his father's death.