Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c23.30

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c23.30

About the same time, according to tradition and the same synchronisms, lived Āpava Vasiṣṭha, whose hermitage near the Himalayas Arjuna Kārtavīrya burnt and who cursed him.⁴ Āpava appears to be a patronymic, for he is called ‘son of Varuṇa’, Vāruṇi,⁵ and āpu is supposed to be equivalent to Varuṇa.

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