KUŚANĀBHA A son born to Kuśa of Vaidarbhī. (For Genealogy see under Viśvāmitra). Sage Kuśa had four sons, namely Kuśāmba, Kuśanābha, Asūrtarajasa and Vasu, and Kuśanābha built Mahodayapura and lived there. One hundred daughters were born to him of his wife Ghṛtācī. Vāyubhagavān once asked the girls to marry him at which proposal they laughed at him in derision. He cursed them and made them hunch-backed ugly women, and Kuśanābha felt very sorry about this cruel fate of his daughters. To Somadā, daughter of a Gandharva woman called Ūrmilā, had been born a son, Brahmadatta, due to the mental power of the sage Cūli Kuśanābha gave in marriage his hundred daughters to Brahmadatta, and they were cured of their hunch at the touch of Brahmadatta and became their previous beautiful selves. Kuśanābha conducted the yajña called Putrakāmeṣṭi, and Kuśa, who was so pleased by the yajña blessed him to have a son called Gādhi. Viśvāmitra was the son of this Gādhi. Viśvāmitra had also a sister Satyavatī, whom Ṛcīka wedded.
[Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Bālakāṇḍa, Cantos 32-35] .