Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c32.83

c32.83

Thus the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa shows that Aruṇa Aupaveśi¹ lived well before 800 B.C., and the synchronisms coupled with the date of the Bhārata battle assign him to the early half of the ninth century B.C. Similarly the Jaiminīya shows that Yājñavalkya Vājasaneya lived well before 725, and his position in the table places him more than a century earlier. The Śatapatha notices Uddālaka, Śvetaketu, Śakalya, Āsuri, Madhuka, Prācīnayogya and Satyakāma, and shows that Satyakāma, the latest of them, lived well before 600 B.C. The Kauṣītaki mentions Uddālaka, Śvetaketu and Madhuka, and fixes their time closer in that Madhuka, the latest of these, lived well before 700. The most effective indication is that to the Tāṇḍins belonged the Tāṇḍya or Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa of the Sāmaveda,² so that Taṇḍiputra and all the prior teachers of that Veda in column 7 were anterior to 830 B.C.