History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.s1.16

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∗ It may be mentioned that Mahīdāsa Aitareya the author of the Aitareya Rigveda Brahmana is treated in legend a son of a Śudra woman but even then according to caste rules then obtaining he would be a Brhamin like Vyāsa. Sudāsa similarly of the Vedas is wrongly treated from name ending by some as a Śudra king. But Sudāsa is a Kshatriya name in both the solar and lunar genealogies. Vishnugupta author of the Panchatantra was a Brahmin.