[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Ancient Indian Historical Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922) › c9.56 # Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c9.56 Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c9.56 - **Language:** English ### [c9.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c9.56) The story above mentioned that begins Matsyaḥ Sāmmadaḥ⁶ appears to be that told in Viṣṇu iv, 2, 19 f. and Padma vi, 232, 33 f. about the rishi Saubhari. While practising long austerities he saw a fish named Sammada or Sāmamada joyous with an immense and happy family,⁷ and aroused thereby, he married the fifty daughters of Māndhātṛ, king of Ayodhyā, and maintained them in great magnificence and happiness.⁸ That is probably what the above brahmanical passage cited. What is there called an itihāsa is found in two Puranas now. I have not found the story about Tārkṣya Vaipaśyata, but it was a story about birds.⁹ - [Previous: c9.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c9.55) - [Next: c9.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c9.57) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c9) ## Cites (2) - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.6.232.33) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.4.2.19) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c9.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c9.56) · Pramāṇa