Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.434

v1.c3.s17.434

Hillebrandt²⁶ considers that the Trtsus cannot be identified with the Bharatas, but that Sudās and the Bharatas represent an invading body, which, however, became allied with the Trtsus and the Vasiṣṭha priests. He also thinks that the Rigveda reveals a time when Divodāsa, the grandfather or ancestor of Sudās, was living in Arachosia, on the Sarasvatī, and warring against the Paṇis, whom he identifies with the Parnians. But this conjecture²⁷ cannot be regarded as probable. In the Sarasvatī²⁸ it is not necessary to see any other river than the later Sarasvatī, in the middle country, which flowed within the boundaries of the Trtsus: it is also significant that there are references²⁹ to contests between Turvaśa Yadu and Atithigva or Divodāsa. Thus there is no reason to doubt that Divodāsa and the Bharatas were in the middle country, and not in Iran.