Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s3.4
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s3.4
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c9.s3.4
Parikshit appears in a famous laud of the Twentieth Book of the *Atharva Veda Saṁhitā*¹ as a king of the Kurus (*Kauravya*) whose kingdom (*rāshtra*) flowed with milk and honey. The passage runs as follows :—