History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v2.c28.s1.89

v2.c28.s1.89

This sūtra was misunderstood in later times but it plainly appears here that it applies to a king and not to all Kshatriyas. The Sūtra proceeds to give the Pravaras beginning with Bhṛigu without distinction for Brahmins and Kshatriyas. The special provisions for Kshatriyas come at the end which are very important; अथ क्षत्रियाणां ययह सार्ष प्रवृणीरन् एक एवैषां प्रवरः । मानवडपौरुरवसेति होता । The word सार्ष is not properly understood and it appears as सार्ष in Āśvalāyaua There is plainly here an attempt to bring in the Purānic genealogy. But it also appears that these old Sūtras which date probably from the 5th to the 1st century B. C. contemplate the Purāṇas not as they exist now, but as they existed in those days. For this Pravara offers a puzzle which we placed before many Vaidikas but which has not yet been solved. Ida or Ila is Manu's son but Purūravas is not Ida's son but the son of Ila changed into the woman Ilā according to modern Purāṇas. And secondly, this Pravara cannot be used by the solar race Kshatriyas among whose ancestors Purūravas does not come. Thirdly, Manu may be a Mantrakṛit but we know no Rigveda Mantra composed by Ida. He cannot be a Pravara Rishi.