Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c14.s3.81

c14.s3.81

⁴ This explains the allusions in the Śatapatha Brāhm (xiii, 5, 4, 1) and Śāṅkhāyana Śr Sūtra (xvi, 9, 7) to Janamejaya Pārikṣita and his three sons (not brothers), the Pārikṣitiyas, and also the question in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad (iii, 3), ‘Whither have the Pārikṣitas gone?’ if their extinction be implied: but the answer ‘Thither where aśvamedha sacrificers go’ suggests the opposite, because such sacrifices procured great blessings, as is declared in this story in MBh xii, 152, 5674. See Weber Hist. of Indian Lit., pp. 125-6, 135-6, 186: and Vedic Index, i, p. 520