Scion-tier (registry-floor) descendant of Arjuna — through Arjuna → Abhimanyu → Parīkṣit → Janamejaya — making him the structural-narrative-frame audience of the entire Mahābhārata. Vyāsa's disciple Vaiśampāyana recites the epic to Janamejaya during the sarpasattra (snake-sacrifice) at Takṣaśīlā that Janamejaya conducts to avenge his father's death by Takṣaka. The narration-during-sacrifice establishes the canonical recursive frame: the war-epic exists as told to the great-grandson of the demigod war-hero, in the Kuru-court of the early kali-yuga, recorded by the sage Vyāsa who is also a character within the war-narrative he composed. Janamejaya Pārikṣita is also independently attested in the older Brahmanic tradition (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa 8.21, Atharvaveda-pariśiṣṭa) as a Vedic ritual-king — making him the cross-corpus link between the post-Vedic ritualized-court tradition and the epic-frame tradition.