Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c7.23

c7.23

⁸ Ibid. line 7—Paurāṇikas tv anyas sūto māgadhaś ca brahma-kṣatrād viśeṣataḥ. R. Shama Sastri translates this thus, ‘But men of the names, Sūta and Māgadha, celebrated in the purāṇas, are quite different and of greater merit than either Brahmans or Kṣatriyas’—where the last assertion is surely staggering. Brahma-kṣatra means sometimes ‘brahmans and