Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s3.138

c9.s3.138

A comparatively late date, albeit not the date suggested by the *Kathā-sarit-sāgara*, can also be inferred from certain passages in the later Vedic texts. We shall show in the next section that Parikshit’s son and successor Janamejaya was separated by five or six generations, of teachers from the time of Janaka of the Upanishads and his contemporary Uddālaka Āruṇi. At the end of the *Kaushītaki* or *Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka*¹ we find a *vaṁśa* or list of the teachers by whom the knowledge contained in that *Āraṇyaka* is supposed to have been handed down. The opening words of this list run thus:—