Studies in the Epics and Puranas c11.4

c11.4

Now, apart from the fact that philologically the word Kuruśravaṇa may well degenerate into Kuru-Saṃvaraṇa,² there are other factors pointing to the identity of the pair. It seems, as I have tried to show later on, that Kuru-śravaṇa of the Ṛgveda appears as Kuru-Saṃvaraṇa—Kuru, son of Saṃvaraṇa, —of the Purāṇas and the Mahābhārata. In order to understand properly the exact significance attached to these names in the Vedic literature and the Purāṇas, it is necessary to collect references to Kuru-śravaṇa, Saṃvaraṇa and Kuru from these sources—Vedic as well as Purāṇic.