Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c32.65

c32.65

⁹ Cf. the story of Jabālā and her son Satyakāma, who were later (infra); Chāndogya Up. iv, 4, 1–2. Cf. Vedic Index i, 273, 479–80; ii, 84, 259. As regards polyandry, MBh i, 195, 7244 to 196, 7271. Was the description of a brahman by adding putra to his mother’s name (a practice that prevailed about this period) due to such laxity? Weber, Hist. of Ind. Lit., pp. 71, 131 : where Kṛṣṇa Devakīputra, the scholar, is plainly different from Kṛṣṇa the king; so Vedic Index, i, p. 184. Kṛṣṇa was a very common name, and Devaka (and therefore the feminine Devakī) an ordinary name.