Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c11.s1.86

c11.s1.86

pañcâlâh, and Bharatâh (vide Weber, “Ind. Lit. G.”² p. 126, note). With this, above all, fits in the conception running through the epics. Also those who, like us, do not rate highly the confused representations of the Mahâbhârata regarding the stocks of antiquity in general, will not be able to avoid giving a certain weight to the evidences which the great epic at every step, and, indeed, even by its name, furnishes to prove that the royal family of the Kurus was a Bhârata family.*