Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.31

c30.31

¹ MBh i, 152 to 155. ² MBh vi, 82, 3559; 84, 3663. ³ MBh v, 161, 5591 : vii, 180, 8171-2. ⁴ JASB, lxvi, Part I, p. 104. ⁵ MBh v, 18, 584 : cf. ii, 25, 1002. ⁶ With Yavanas, MBh ii, 50, 1834. ⁷ MBh v, 47, 1889 : xii, 341, 12956-7. Hv 121, 6791-6; 122, 6885-8. Yet he is called an asura, MBh vii, 29, 1290; and his kingdom, v, 47, 1887. ⁸ Rāvaṇa called an asura, Pad vi, 143, 3. ⁹ The passages cited in the preceding notes will illustrate this. Various classes of Rākṣasas are named, Vā 69, 164 f.: Bḍ iii, 7, 132 f. ¹⁰ Hv 175 to 177; 190. Pad vi, 277, 3-4, 17; and even ‘lord of the bhūtas’, ibid. 25/11. ¹¹ MBh xii, 341, 12954. ¹² So the Chinese called Europeans ‘foreign devils’, and Chinese Christians ‘secondary foreign devils’. ¹³ MBh xii, 341, 12960-1. ¹⁴ P.