Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s3.13

c32.s3.13

At the time when the *Karṇaparvan* (Ch. xliv) was written, evidently they had become heterodox, probably Buddhists, as it says, 'the Vāhīkas 'who never perform sacrifices, whose religion has been destroyed,' 'they are 'without the Veda and without knowledge.' They are orthodox in the Śatapatha Br. (I. 7. 3. 8, Grierson, LSI, 4 n. 8), in the Upanishads which describe Śvetaketu going into the Punjab for religious tournament, and also evidently in Pāṇini.