[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Ancient Indian Historical Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922) › c19.59 # Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c19.59 Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c19.59 - **Language:** English ### [c19.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c19.59) King Kṛta or Kṛti of the Dvimīḍha line was, as all the passages which mention him say,² the disciple of Hiraṇyanābha or Hiraṇyanābhi Kausalya, and made twenty-four saṃhitās of sāmans; they were the ‘eastern sāmans’, and the chanters of them were called Kārtas or Kārtis after him. Hiraṇyanābha was a king of Kosala,³ but his position is confused in three passages, which place him five generations after Vyāsa⁴; and that is wrong, because it would make him one of the ‘future’ kings after the Bhārata battle (chapter III), but he was not one of them⁵ and the genealogies fix his position clearly as No. 83 in the Ayodhyā dynasty;⁶ and because it is incredible that, after the brahmans had established the Vedic schools, two kings could have been such authorities on the sāmans. Kṛta was one step below Hiraṇyanābha. - [Previous: c19.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c19.58) - [Next: c19.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c19.60) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c19) ## Linked texts (7) - [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.9.21.28) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahmanda.2.35.31) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.49.75) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.4.19.13) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.13.5.4.4) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit - [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Harivaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c19.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c19.59) · Pramāṇa