Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.67

c11.s1.67

In order to define the position which the Tritsus, whose brilliant victories are so highly celebrated in the Vasistha Hymns, occupy among the stocks of the Vedic age, we point next to the connection in which they stand with the Sriñjaya (vide supra, p. 402), a connection which is undoubtedly to be regarded as an alliance. Both have the same enemies: that the Tritsus stand opposed to the Turvaças in battle we know from vii, 18, 6; 19, 8, and so on; of the Sriñjayas we gather the same from vi, 27, 7. In the hymns of the Bharadvâja book (Mand. vi) an equal friendship for the Sriñjayas and the Tritsu prince Divodâsa appears; the praises of the gifts and honours which the bard has received from Divodâsa, and of those which he has received from the Sârñjaya (i.e., Daivavâta), are united in the same poem (vi, 47).* Now we have already mentioned the union of the Sriñjayas and Kurus appearing in the Brâhmana; as the bard of vi, 47 posed as the Purohita of the Tritsu and Sriñjaya princes, so Devabhâga Çrautarsha (“Çat. Br.” ii, 4, 4, 5) united the purohital dignity of the Kurus and Sriñjayas. Thus we shall be led by probabilities to allot to the Tritsus their place within the circle of stocks, among which later on the name of the Kurus played the most prominent part.