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¹ The Sūtas or bards were also charioteers. They made a special sub-caste and lived at court, while the Kuçīlavas learned the songs of the bards and wandered among the people at large singing them. This name was resolved into Kuça and Lava who are represented as two singers, sons of Rāma. They learned the poem of Vālmīki and recited it among the people, as the later story goes (*Rāmāyaṇa*, I, 4). The Magadha king Jarāsandha was the ruler of the East, as the Pāṇḍus were his rivals in the West.