Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c16.19

c16.19

The cohesion of a euphonic *r*, or the treating of an initial *r* as belonging to the preceding word may explain in the Paurava line the forms Rahampāti of the Harivaṃśa and Ahampāti of the Viṣṇu and Bhāgavata; also of Rantināra in the Vāyu and Antināra in the Matsya, while Antināra and the form generally found, Matināra, may perhaps be due to mistake between *ma* and *a*.