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179 Mahābhārata, Udyogaparvan 117 (ed. Poona). Bhaimaseni Divodāsa is also mentioned in the Kāṭhakasaṃhitā (7.8). Other references to Divodāsa in the Mahābhārata are found at Sabhāparvan 8.12 and Śāntiparvan 96.21 (ed. Poona). Compare S. Sörensen (1963): 256. 180 See D.D. Shulman (1980): 77–82. 181 Agnipuraṇa (278); Bhāgavatapurāṇa (9.71); Garuḍapurāṇa (139); Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa (III, upodghātapāda 67.26–31); *Brahmapurāṇa*; Skandapurāṇa (Kāśīkhaṇḍa 43–58); Vāyupurāṇa (Uttarārdha 30). See on Divodāsa in the Vāyupurāṇa: D.R. Patil (1973). 182 Agnipuraṇa 278.22–23. 183 Matsyapurāṇa (ed. J.D. Akhtar) 50.6–7 (son of Vindhyāśva). Compare S.G. Kantawala (1964): 26. 184 See D.R. Patil (1973): 33. 185 Viṣṇupurāṇa 4.19.62. 186 See Th. Sarmah (1991) on the Pāñcāla king Divodāsa. 187 See Th. Sarmah (1991) for a discussion of the views presented by D.R. Mankad (1951), F.E. Pargiter (1913), (1962), S.N. Pradhan (1927: 1–18), *V.G. Rahurkar (1964), and H.C.Seth (1942). See also: S.G. Kantawala (1964): 31; D.R. Mankad (1975); F.E. Pargiter (1918). 188 See, for instance, ABI 481; AVI 51; K.R. Srikanta Murthy (1992a): 199. 189 Divodāsa figures in the list of royal sages (rājarṣi) of the Vāyupurāṇa (D.R. Patil, 1973: 22–23). 190 Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī (4.2.116) calls Kāśī a janapada, while Vārāṇasī is said to be a city (nagara) (Gaṇapāṭha ad Pāṇini 4.2.97). See N.N. Bhattacharyya (1991); N. Dey (1979); B.C. Law (1933–34): 15–17, (1984): 42, 46, 94–96. 191 Compare Kāśikā 6.3.21.5, quoted by Sāyaṇa ad Rgveda 1.116.18. See also the references to Divodāsa in Kātyāyana’s Vārttika and the Mahābhāṣya (*3.147) (see ABI 479; AVI 51). 192 See, for example, Gaṇanāthasena’s upodghāta, 3, to ed. dd of the Suśrutasaṃhitā; Sūramcandra (1978): I, 164–174. K.R. Srikanta Murthy (1992a: 199) regards the Divodāsa of the Suśrutasaṃhitā as the one who is mentioned as the father of Pratardana in the Mahābhārata and some Purāṇas. Dhanvantari is referred to as Kāśīpati at Su.Ka.1.3. 193 Compare a variant of Su.Ka.1.3, recorded by Dalhaṇa, where Divodāsa is called kṣitipati and tapodharmaśrutākara. 194 Brahmavaivartapurāṇa, Brahmakhaṇḍa 16.13–16 (quoted: Gaṇanātha Sena, 1924: I, 14–15; Satyaprakāś, 1960: 93; Vṛddhatrayī 6–7). 195 See Ganganatha Jha (1936). Quoted by Rama Rao (1972c: 5) and Sūramcandra (1978: I, 118). 196 See NCC IX, 49. 197 NCC IV, 138: a name of Dhanvantari. Compare Kāśīnātha, who is sometimes called Kāśīrāja. Kāśīrājanighaṇṭu is an alternative title of the Madanapālanighaṇṭu (Check-list Nr. 390). 198 Divodāsa is also referred to as Kāśīpati (Su.Sū.1.41; U.18.3). Compare P. Cordier (1901a): 82–83. 199 Su.Sū.1.3; U.40.7. 200 Brahmavaivartapurāṇa, Brahmakhaṇḍa 16.13–16 (see the quotation in Vṛddhatrayī 6–7; compare N. Gangadharan, 1997: 64). G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 441) quotes *Majumdār’s ‘The Hindu history’, where Kāśīrāja, the author of the Cikitsākaumudī, is regarded as identical with Vāmaka, the second king of Kāśī, who is supposed to have lived about 700 B.C.