Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c31.45

c31.45

⁶ J. Kennedy expressed a somewhat similar view (JRAS, 1920, p. 40), after I reached this conclusion. Pad vi, 230, 20 says, ‘Of yore in the Kṛta age brahmans were *tapasvins*, a non-brahman was never a *tapasvin*’. Magical powers were ascribed to the earliest rishis and magical wiles to the Daityas and Dānavas. Cf. Hastings’ *Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics*, v, 1–2.