The History of Indian Literature c9.362

c9.362

³³⁶ Can the legend in the Mahábhárata, xii. 2056, have any connection herewith—to the effect that Śvetaketu was disowned by his father Uddálaka because of his being “*mithyá viprán upacharan*”?—The name Śvetaketu further occurs among the prior births of Buddha, No. 370 in Westergaard's *Catalogus*, p. 40; but amongst these 539 *játakas* pretty nearly everything appears to be mentioned!