Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.68

c11.s1.68

Much clearer results are obtained if we accept the important and acute supposition of Ludwig,† who declares the Tritsus to be identical with the Bharatas. I think that there is, in fact, more than one consideration in support of this conjecture. The Tritsus are mentioned under this name exclusively in the seventh Mandala; but it is *à priori* in the highest degree improbable that the race which thus plays so brilliant a part should be wholly unknown to the remaining parts of the Rigveda; there is in them no deficiency of passages where mention is made of the Tritsu king Sudâs and his father, Divodâsa Atithigva, the conqueror of Çambara. If we are thus authorized to presuppose that the Tritsus are identical with one of the elsewhere-mentioned stocks—and certainly in all probability with one of those frequently mentioned—there thus remain, in fact, as the Five Peoples are excluded on account of their enmity against the Tritsus, apparently only the Bharatas of whom we can entertain a thought. That vii, 33, 6, can be used as well to support as to controvert this view is evident. Direct support of this identification of the Tritsus with the Bharatas is found* in the following considerations:—