Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.24
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.24
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¹ The reference in the *Mahābhārata* (I. 105. 47. ff; 106. 2, 13; 113. 43; 114. 3f; 126, 16; 127, 24) to Kāsi princesses, the mothers of Dhṛitarāshṭra and Pāṇḍu, as Kausalyā, possibly points to the traditional union of the two realms of Kāsi and Kosala in the period when part of the epic was compiled. The expression Kāsi-Kausalya already occurs in the Gopatha Brāhmaṇa (*Vedic Index*. I. 195).