Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c18.115

c18.115

It thus appears that Bṛhaspati’s son Bharadvāja was a younger contemporary of Divodāsa II of Kāśi. This entirely agrees with what has been mentioned incidentally above, that Bharadvāja was Divodāsa’s purohita, a statement found both in the epic and in brahmanical books—thus confirming the two sets of synchronisms. Bṛhaspati and Bharadvāja belonged to the country of Vaiśālī, which was contiguous to the kingdom of Kāśi, and so Bharadvāja could quite naturally have become purohita in the latter; indeed the preceding remarks about all these Āṅgirasas show that they steadily migrated westwards.