Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.534

v1.c3.s11.534

The Kurus alone are chiefly mentioned in connexion with the locality which they occupied, Kurukṣetra. We are told, however, of a domestic priest (Purohita) in the service of both the Kurus and the Sṛñjayas,¹⁹ who must therefore at one time have been closely connected.²⁰ In the Chāndogya Upaniṣad reference is made to the Kurus being saved by a mare (aśvā),²¹ and to some disaster which befel them owing to a hailstorm.²² In the Sūtras, again, a ceremony (Vājapeya) of the Kurus is mentioned.²³ There also a curse, which was pronounced on them and led to their being driven from Kurukṣetra, is alluded to.²⁴