Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c23.116

c23.116

² See twelfth note ante, where Mat reading Mitrāvaruṇa is probably correct rather than Vā and Bḍ reading Mitrā°, for the latter might easily be an ‘emendation’ of the former, whereas the reverse is highly improbable. Mitrāvaruṇa is mentioned again, Mat 200, 16, and is probably the true name. The Vedārth may support this perhaps, for it attributes hymn viii, 67 in the alternative to Mānya (i.e. an Agastya), Mitrāvaruṇa-putra, which means naturally ‘son of Mitrāvaruṇa’; whereas ‘son of Mitra and Varuṇa’ should rather be Mitra-Varuṇa-putra in its Sanskrit.