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² *Ṛig Veda*, i, 116, 23; i, 117, 7. The identification of Kṛiṣhṇa who lived on the banks of the Aṁsumatī (*Ṛig Veda*, VIII, 96, 13f) with his epic and Purāṇic namesake (P. T. Śrīnivāsa Iyengar, *Life in Ancient India*, pp. 131ff; Radhakrishnan, *The Heart of Hindusthan*, p. 51; *Indian Philosophy*, Vol. I, p. 493) is implausible. The Aṁsumatī is not the Jumna as stated by Iyengar but a river in the Kuru country (Macdonell, *The Bṛihad-devatā*, part II, p. 238).