Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c7.81

c7.81

Those versions do not exist now;¹ still some of those persons, besides Romaharṣaṇa, appear as inquirers or narrators in some of the Puranas and also in the Mahābhārata.² Thus Sāvarṇi,³ Kāśyapeya⁴ and Śāṃśapāyana⁵ appear in the Vāyu and Brahmāṇḍa, which are two of the oldest Puranas and were one originally. The passages in which those persons appear may be remnants of those old Puranas incorporated in these two, especially as Śāṃśapāyana not seldom appears without announcement. Moreover these two Puranas alone have the old fourfold division spoken of in the above