Tribes in Ancient India c33.92

c33.92

The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (XII, 2, 2, 13) mentions Proti Kausurubindi as a pupil undergoing brahmacarya under Uddālaka Āruṇi (of Upaniṣadic fame) and bearing the local epithet of Kauśāmbeya which the commentator Harisvāmin explains as meaning ‘a native of Kauśāmbī.’³ The Gopatha Brāhmaṇa (I, 4, 24) contains the same reference, but the name of Uddālaka’s pupil is here given as Predi Kausurubindu. Kosambeyaka, a Prākṛit form of Kauśāmbeya, occurs in one of the Bārhut Inscriptions, being employed to mean ‘a person from Kauśāmbī.’⁴