Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c26.10

c26.10

²⁰⁶ Rām i, 57, 3–4 gives him four sons with names all wrong. Bṛhadd iv, 95 and Bhāg ix, 16, 29 say 101. ⁴ MBh xiii, 3, 188. ⁵ Aitareya Brāhm vii, 18. Śaṅkhāyana Śr Sūtra xv, 26. ⁶ Rām i, 62, 9–17. ⁷ As Rākṣasas, Vā 69, 195; 70, 53, 56 : Bd iii, 8, 59, 62. ⁸ It may have been developed out of the story that a Viśvāmitra, compelled by hunger, once ate dog's flesh from a caṇḍāla's hand; Bṛ 93, 5–24; Manu x, 108; MBh xii, 141, 5344–5417. But more probably it means that some of Viśvāmitra's descendants became priests to non-Aryan tribes and so degenerated to the level of their clients. It is said he created yātudhānas, MBh xiii, 3, 4. See Paulastyas, note, next chapter. ⁹ MBh xiii, 4, 248, 259. ¹⁰ Bhāg ix, 16, 29, 33–7.