History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c23.165

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⁵¹⁹ गायतमिति वीणागाथिनौ संशास्ति। उत्तरयोः पूर्वा साल्वानां ब्राह्मणानामितरा। आप. गृ. सू. 14. 4-5; the verses from the मन्त्रपाठ (II. 11. 12-13) are यौगन्धरिरेव नो राजेति साल्वीरवादिषुः। विवृत्तचक्रा आसीनास्तीरेण यमुने तव॥ सोम एव नो राजेत्याहुर्ब्राह्मणीः प्रजाः। विवृत्तचक्रा आसीनास्तीरेणासौ तव॥. भारद्वाजगृह्य (I. 2) has (*Continued from last page*) only the 2nd verse but reads the last pāda as स्तीरेण यमुने तव; while Hir. reads गङ्गे for यमुने in the verse as read by Bhāradvāja. Pār. reads ‘सोम एव नो राजेमा मानुषीः प्रजाः। अविमुक्तचक्र आसीरंस्तीरे तुभ्यमसाविति’. Here अविमुक्तचक्रे qualifies तीरे (loc.) or it may be the vocative addressed to the river whose name is taken. It may be inferred with some force that Āp. mantrapāṭha and Hir. gṛ were composed in the Śālva country on the banks of the Jumna and the Bhāradvāja gṛ on the Ganges. Haradatta explaining Āp gṛ. says that the country of Śālva is on the Jumna and that Vaiśyas are in abundance there. The country of Śālva was included in the Kacchādigaṇa (Pāṇini V. 2. 133, and Mahābhāṣya, vol. II. p. 300). Pāṇini mentions Śālva in IV. 1. 173, IV. 2. 135 and teaches the formation of Yaugandhara in IV. 2. 130 and of Yaugandhari in IV. 1. 173. In the Vanaparva 14. 1–5 it is said that the king of Śālva whose capital was at Saubha attacked Dvārakā. Śalyaparva (20. 1) calls the Śālva king lord of mleccha tribes and speaks of him as fighting for Duryodhana and as killed by Sātyaki. A Kārikā quoted by the Kāśikā makes Yaugandhara a division of Śālva ‘उदुम्बरास्तिलखला मद्रकारा युगन्धराः। भुलिङ्गाः शरदण्डाश्च साल्वावयवसंज्ञिताः ॥’.