Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c32.48

c32.48

The foregoing succession of teachers of the Vedic schools during the Brāhmaṇa period may be supplemented by notices of various brahmans who were contemporary. Many are mentioned in Vedic literature and in the Mahābhārata and Puranas, but generally in brahmanic statements without definite historical connexions:³ yet here may be noticed certain of them on whom light can be thrown so as to suggest their mutual, and approximately real, positions.