The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s4.t1.124

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∗ i. 85. 22 ff. ; v. 149. 1 ff. Compare V. P. iv. 10; Vāyu P. ii. 31. 75. † Compare the different accounts of Devāpi in Muir’s Sanskrit Texts, i. 273 ff. The Matsya asserts that the ‘people’ in general discarded him. The tale is old, and found thus in the Nirukta (ii. 10), but with the important modification that Çantanu unrighteously got the kingdom without mention of the people. The V. P. (iv. 20. 7 ff.) coincides with the Nirukta version, except in the return of the elder as *purohita*. He is here an unbeliever. In the first book of the Epic we have only the religious zeal of Devāpi given as reason for his becoming a hermit. Compare i. 94. 61; Weber, *Ind. St.* i.