Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c7.80

c7.80

them to his six disciples, Ātreya Sumati, Kāśyapa Akṛtavraṇa, Bhāradvāja Agnivarcas, Vāsiṣṭha Mitrayu, Sāvarṇi Somadatti, and Suśarman Śāṃśapāyana. Three of them, Kāśyapa, Sāvarṇi and Śāṃśapāyana, made three separate saṃhitās, which were called by their names. Romaharṣaṇa’s saṃhitā and those three were the ‘root-compositions’ (mūla-saṃhitā). They consisted of four divisions (pāda) and were to the same effect but differed in their diction. All except Śāṃśapāyana’s contained 4,000 verses.