Bahu or Bahuka (बाहुक) was a king of the Ikshvaku dynasty

Ikshvaku dynasty

The Ikshvaku dynasty, in Puranic literature, was a mythical dynasty founded by Ikshvaku, grandson of Vivasvan or Surya and son of Vaivasvata Manu. This dynasty is also known as . The important personalities belonging to this royal house are Harishchandra, Dilīpa, Sagara, Raghu, Rama and Prasenajit...

 or the Suryavamsha (solar dynasty). According to the Puranas, he was son of Vrika. But the Ramayana

Ramayana

The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...

 mentions him as Asita, son of Bharata. According to this text, he had two queens, one of them was Kalindi. He was vanquished and driven out of his country by the tribes of Haihayas

Haihayas

The Haihayas were an ancient confederacy of five ganas , who claimed their common ancestry from Yadu. According to the Harivamsha Purana...

 and Talajanghas and took refuge in the forest near the hermitage of Agni, a descendant of Urva. His son, Sagara

Sagara (Vedic king)

King Sagara is one of the greatest kings of the Suryavansha in the Satya Yuga, also known as the Ikshvaku dynasty, he has two wives, one a princess of the Vidarbha, and the other from royal lineage of Sivi He was an ancestor to King Dasharatha and Lord Rama .-Birth of Ganga:King Sagara performed a...

was born in this hermitage.