<P> Bharata performed many sacrifices and Sage Kanva was the chief priest at those sacrifices . Bharata performed a hundred Horse sacrifices on the banks of the Yamuna, three hundred on the banks of Saraswati and four hundred on the banks of the Ganga . He again performed a thousand Horse sacrifices and a hundred Rajasuya . He also conducted sacrifices such as Agnishtoma, Atiratra, Uktha and Viswajit . He also performed many thousands of Vajapeyas . </P> <P> Bharata had a son named Bhúmanyu . In the Adi Parva of Mahabharata, it tells two different stories about Bhúmanyu's birth . The first story says that Bharata married Sunanda, the daughter of Sarvasena, the King of Kasi Kingdom and begot upon her the son named Bhumanyu . According to the second story, Bhúmanyu was born out of a great sacrifice that Bharata performed for the sage Bharadwaja . </P> <P> Emperor Bharata gave his name to the dynasty of which he was the founder . It was in the Bharatas' dynasty that later the Pandavas of epic Mahabharata were born . </P>

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