Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c23.105

c23.105

The second section of the genealogy (lines 12–16) says that ‘Vasiṣṭha’ had by his wife Kapiñjalī Ghṛtācī a famous son Indrapramati,³ well known as Kuṇin or Kuṇīti.⁴ He married Pṛthu’s daughter and had a son Vasu,⁵ and Vasu had a son Upamanyu,⁶ the progenitor of the Upamanyus or Aupamanyavas. Indrapramati was a well-known rishi,⁷ and there were more than one rishi named Upamanyu, as will appear. These two and Śakti and six other Vasiṣṭhas, as mentioned above, each composed three verses of Rigveda ix, 97, all independently, so that Upamanyu’s contribution must have been some time after Indrapramati’s, if the order of the rishis is chronological; and Indrapramati later than Maitrāvaruṇi Vasiṣṭha, if the opening verses were composed by the latter.⁸