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भरन्त् (bharant)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Bharant, ‘bearing, in the plural denotes in one passage of
the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, ^1 according to Böhtlingk, ^2 following
Sāyaṇa, ‘the warrior caste, but the sense is not certain.
Weber^3 was inclined to see a reference to the Bharatas, though
the form of the word is that of the present participle.^4
1) xviii. 10, 8.
2) Dictionary, s.v.
3) Indische Studien, 10, 28, n. 2. Cf.
Bharata, n. 17.
4) Bharatām, interpreted by Sāyaṇa as bharaṇaṃ kurvatām kṣatriyāṇām.