[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) › v2.c4.s3.62 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s3.62 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s3.62 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s3.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s3.62) Bharad-vāja is the name of the reputed¹ author of the sixth Maṇḍala of the Rigveda. The attribution is so far correct that Bharadvāja² and the Bharadvājas³ are repeatedly mentioned as singers in that Maṇḍala. Judging by the tone of the references to Bharadvāja, he can hardly be deemed to have been a contemporary of any of the hymns.⁴ According to the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,⁵ he was the Purohita of Divodāsa. This interpretation is to be preferred to that of Roth,⁶ who suggests that he and Divodāsa were identical. His connexion with the house of Divodāsa also appears from the statement of the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā⁷ that Bharadvāja gave Pratardana the kingdom. It is unnecessary to suppose that the same Bharadvāja was meant in both cases, and that Pratardana was a son of Divodāsa: the later Saṃhitās refer to Bharadvāja, like the other great sages, irrespective of chronology. - [Previous: v2.c4.s3.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s3.61) - [Next: v2.c4.s3.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s3.63) - [Up: v2.c4.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s3.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s3.62) · Pramāṇa