Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.75

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The Brâhmana texts tell us of Bharata heroes in a distant antiquity as well as of such as must be regarded as belonging to a not very remote past. In the list of Açvamedha offerers ("Çat." xiii, 5, 4) two Bharata princes appear: Bharata himself, the son of Dushyanta, and Çatânîka Sâtrâjita; the accompanying verses on both occasions point to the incomparable nobility of the Bharata or Bharatas, whose greatness is as far beyond that of other mortals as the heavens are above the earth. The family, as belonging to which those two princes were regarded by the compilers of the Brâhmana text, proceeds from the person of the priests, who are named in connection with them: Bharata Daushyanti has received the kingly installation from Dîrghatamas Mâmateya, therefore from a Rishi of the Rik-Samhitâ (“Ait.” viii, 23), Çatanîka Sâtrâjita on the contrary from Somaçushman Vâjaratnâyana (“Ait.” viii, 21), therefore from a man, whom his name already stamps as belonging to a later epoch.