Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c8.76

c8.76

⁹ Often celebrated. Of him an old verse was sung—‘As far as the sun rises and as far as he sets, all that is called Yauvanāśva Māndhātṛ’s territory’: MBh vii, 62, 2282-3; xii, 29, 983: Vā 88, 68: Bḍ iii, 63, 69-70: Viṣ iv, 2, 18: Bhāg ix, 6, 37. Celebrated in MBh iii, 126, 10423-68, which describes his birth in an absurd brahmanical fable, noticed in id. vii, 62 and xii, 29, 974-9. Cakravartin, id. xiii, 14, 860.