History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.t2.573.4

v4.c63.t2.573.4

18) to have been the *daughter of* Vasudeva and *sister of* Kṛṣṇa, she was really the daughter of Kṛṣṇa's step-mother's sister or the daughter's daughter of the sister of his step-mother's father (a female cousin being often called a sister among the Lāṭas). Vide H. of Dh. vol. II. pp. 459-460 and notes to my edition of the text of V. Mayūkha (pp. 200-202). Kṛṣṇa's marriage with Rukmiṇī is to be similarly explained. It is somewhat surprising that Khaṇḍadeva states that it is nowhere found that Subhadrā was the daughter of Vasudeva. Probably he had a corrupt reading of the Mahābhārata passage before him. As to the charge of drinking spirituous liquor (*ubhau madhvāsavakṣībau* in Udyogaparva 59. 5) against both Vāsudeva and Arjuna, they were both kṣatriyas and only brāhmaṇas were prohibited from drinking any kind of intoxicating drink (Gaut. II. 25), while to kṣatriyas and vaiśyas two kinds of wine called madhu (liquor from honey or madhuka flowers) and sīdhu (rum) were allowed and only paiṣṭī (spirituous liquor distilled from flour) was forbidden (by Gaut. II. 25, Manu XI. 93-94).