Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c10.90

c10.90

⁸ Two kings of Ayodhyā. The genealogies say Purukutsa's wife was Narmadā, without connecting her with the river, Vā 88, 74: Bḍ iii, 63, 73 (which has lost 3 lines): Br 7, 95-6: Hv 12, 714-5: Śiv vii, 60, 79: Kūr i, 20, 27-8: Gar i, 138, 24. Women in ancient times bore the same names as rivers, see chap. XI. So also Viṣ iv, 3, 6-12 and Bhāg ix, 7, 1–3, but imply her identity with the river. Mat 12, 36 (where for Vasudo read Trasado) and Ag 272, 25 wrongly make her wife of Trasadasyu. Pad v, 8, 140 goes further wrong, making her wife of (Trasadasyu’s son) Sambhūta. The identification of her with the river was a later fancy, as in MBh xv, 20, 549–50.