Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c6.s1.78

c6.s1.78

M. Przyluski after producing various evidences philological, phonetical and ethnographical has reached the conclusion that Koṭumbara and Odumbara are the same—the alterations of the initials being due to the words belonging to Austric family of languages.²⁵² His conclusions are amply supported by the variants given in the Sabhāparva published by the Bhandarkar Research Institute (II. 48, 12). Here the variants of Audumbarāḥ are Auḍumbarā, Auḍumbarā and Kuṭumbarā. This is a further proof that the initials in Odumbara and Koṭumbara alternated on the well known principal of Munda-Khmer languages.