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The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.44

The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.44

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v1.c24.44

But the great conqueror of Kurukshetra was Bharata Dauḥshanti, whose victories on the Jumna and Ganges are commemorated in an old verse quoted by the Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa (XIII, 5, 4, 11); and the extension of Bharata's conquests to Kāçī (Benares) is attributed by another ancient verse (XIII, 5, 4, 19) to Çatānīka Sātrājita. In the Purāṇic list of Pūru kings, Bharata and his father, Dushyanta, appear long before, and Çatānīka soon after, the beginning of the Kali Age. Between the periods of the two conquerors, Bharata and Çatānīka, came the war of the Mahābhārata, which for the Purāṇas marks the division between the third and fourth ages of the world.

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