A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c10.121

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¹ Aitareya-br. vii. 27. Roth, Abhandlungen, p. 118. Weber, Ind. Studien, i. 39. Mârgaveya is a difficult name. It may be simply, as Sâyaṇa says, the son of his mother Mṛigû; but Mṛigû may be a variety of Bhrigu, and thus confirm Lassen's conjecture that this Râma is Râma, the son of Jamadagni, of the race of Bhrigu, commonly called Paraśu-râma. Cf. Weber, Ind. Stud. i. 216. Marghu is the name of Margiana in the Cuneiform Inscriptions.