By Jit Majumdar
Sometimes transliterated as: Asmaka, AZmaka, Ashmaka
- see aśma
- a son of the wife of King Kalmāşapāda of Ayodhyā by Vaśişţha (M. Bh.); a king who fought in the Bharata War for the Pāņdava side and whose son fought for the Kauravas (M. Bh.).