[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s19.218 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s19.218 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s19.218 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s19.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.218) 2. Dhr̥tarāṣṭra Vaicitra-vīrya (‘descendant of Vicitravīrya’) is mentioned in a passage of the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā,¹ which is, unhappily, far from intelligible. But there is no ground for supposing that he was a Kuru-Pañcāla king; he seems rather to have lived at some distance from the Kuru-Pañcālas. There is no good reason to deny his identity² with the Dhr̥tarāṣṭra of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,³ king of Kāśī, who was defeated, when he attempted to offer a horse sacrifice, by Sātrājita Śatānīka. The fact that the latter was a Bharata also points to Dhr̥tarāṣṭra’s not having been a Kuru-Pañcāla at all. In the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā he appears as having a dispute with Vaka Dālbhi; but even assuming that the latter was a Pañcāla, there is nothing to hint that the former was a Kuru or that this dispute is a sign of an early hostility of Kuru and Pañcāla.⁴ It is true that in the Epic Śantanu and Vicitravīrya and Dhr̥tarāṣṭra himself are all connected, but this connexion seems to be due, as so often in the Epic, to a confused derangement of great figures of the past. - [Previous: v1.c3.s19.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.217) - [Next: v1.c3.s19.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.219) - [Up: v1.c3.s19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19) ## Linked texts (2) - [Kāṭhakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*kathaka) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.218) · Pramāṇa