Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c8.123
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c8.123
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c8.123
The third passage⁷ is translated thus by Bühler⁸—‘Now they quote (the following) two verses from a Purâna: Those eighty thousand sages who desired offspring passed to the south by Aryaman’s road and obtained burial-grounds. Those eighty thousand sages who desired no offspring passed by Aryaman’s road to the north and obtained immortality’. I have not found the precise verses cited by him in any Purana, but the same statements expressed in very similar language are found in the Vāyu, Brahmāṇḍa, Matsya and Viṣṇu, with fuller descriptions.¹ Āpastamba quotes a conciser version.