Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.1161

v1.c3.s21.1161

In another legend found in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,⁹ and based on a hymn of the Rigveda,¹⁰ Purumiḷha and Taranta appear as persons who received gifts from Dhvasra and Puruṣanti, and as sons of Vidadaśva. The legend, which also occurs in the Śātyāyanaka,¹¹ is apparently best explained by Sieg,¹² who says that as the two were kings they could not under the rules of caste accept gifts, unless for the nonce they became singers. The legend has no claim at all, as Oldenberg¹³ shows, to validity.