Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c18.137

c18.137

¹¹ The references to Ārṣiṣeṇa in Vedic Index i, 378 require modification. No Ārṣiṣeṇa is named in MBh i, 94, 3750–1. Ārṣiṣeṇa and Devāpi in MBh ix, 40, 2281–2, and 41, 2285–94 are manifestly different persons as those passages show, Devāpi being this prince; but that Ārṣiṣeṇa is there said to have lived in the Kṛta age (far earlier) and is no doubt the ancient prince Ārṣiṣeṇa who became a brahman, as stated in Vā 92, 5–6; Bḍ iii, 67, 6; and also Hv 29, 1520; Br 11, 34. That Ārṣiṣeṇa and Devāpi Ārṣiṣeṇa must therefore be distinguished. Ārṣiṣeṇa in Bḍ ii, 32, 105 and Vā 59, 97 (Adviṣeṇa) would as a mantra-reciter be probably Devāpi. Ārṣiṣeṇa in Vā 91, 116 and Bḍ iii, 66, 87 might be either.