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CHAPTER IX
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4; 3.
14; i.7.2.

9; vi.1.2.14.The change of name is interesting.

There is a remark in another part of the same work to the effect that when a man prospers in life they give his name also to his son, grandson, _and to his father and grandfather_ (vi.1.2.

13).

On the other hand, it was the custom of the Indian kings in later ages to assume the names of their prosperous grandfathers (JRAS.iv.


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