Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.82

c11.s1.82

We may, perhaps, be allowed to surmise that in the Bharatas we have to do with a stock which in the time of the Brâhamana had politically merged in, or was about to merge in, one of the great peoples of India in that age, but which had attaching to its name the splendour of great memories and sacral precedence. If we ask after the people, which may have absorbed the Bharatas, it is most natural to seek them in those tracts to which in the Brâhmana period especially the highest sacral authority appertains in the domains of the Kurupañcâla. It fits in with this that, according to “Çat. Br.” xiii, 5, 4, 11. 21, one Bharata king has obtained a victory over the Kâçis, another has made offerings to Gaṅgâ and Yamunâ. It further tallies with the fact that the formula of the king’s proclamation (esha vo, N. N., râjâ) for the people that is addressed, the following variants occur: Kuravah, Pañcalâh, Kuru-