Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.24

c9.s4.24

We should also note that in the lists of teachers given at the end of the tenth book of the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa*, and the sixth chapter of the *Bṛihad-āraṇyaka Upanishad* Tura Kāvasheya, the priest of Janamejaya, appears as a very ancient sage who was tenth in the ascending line from Sāñjīvīputra, whereas Yājñavalkya and Uddālaka Āruṇi, the contemporaries of Janaka, were only fourth and fifth in the ascending line from the same teacher. The lists are given below :—