Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c26.31

c26.31

Viśvāmitra’s descendants formed many gotras, and more lists are given of them than in any other brahman family. Four Puranas contain lists, which are all different versions of one and the same original list.¹⁰ The Matsya (198) gives a longer list, which agrees with those lists in ten names only. The epic also gives a long list of rishis in this family, and only some fifteen names practically agree with those in the former lists.¹¹ The gotra names generally found in these lists are—Babhru, Devarāta, Gālava, Hiraṇyākṣa, Jābāla, Karīśi, Kuśika or Kauśika, Lohita, Madhucchandas, Pāṇini, Saindhavāyana, Śālaṅkāyana, Suśruta, Tārakāyaṇa, Yājñavalkya.¹²