Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c25.4

c25.4

Prabhākara, who is called Atri or Ātreya,³ is the earliest of this family to whom an historical position is given, namely, that he married the ten daughters of Bhadrāśva or Raudrāśva and Ghṛtācī. Bhadrāśva, as he is called in two Puranas,⁴ or Raudrāśva, as he is generally called,⁵ was an early Paurava king; the Vāyu, Matsya and Bhāgavata name his queen as Ghṛtācī;⁶ and the Vāyu, Brahma and Harivaṃśa add, their ten daughters married the Ātreya Prabhākara. Prabhākara’s position is therefore defined. The genealogy says he had ten sons, called the Svastyātreyas,¹ and from him the best Ātreya gotras were descended. Chief among his Svastyātreya descendants (not sons) were two famous rishis Datta and Durvāsas.²