[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Ancient Indian Historical Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922) › c30.31 # Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.31 Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.31 - **Language:** English ### [c30.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.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. - [Previous: c30.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.30) - [Next: c30.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.32) - [Up: c30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30) ## Cites (6) - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.143.3) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahmanda.2.7.132) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma.160) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.2.8.164) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Harivaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c30.31) · Pramāṇa