The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.10

c16.s1.10

Similarly some of the later States invented fictitious genealogies to glorify their families and tacked on later dynasties to the earlier ones *i.e.*, Saryata of the Haihayas with Saryata son of Manu; and the most glaring instance is that of tacking Chola, Chera, Pandya and Kulya with Andira of the Turvasa line. Are we not familiar with some of the States of Rajasthan, who claim even to-day their descent from Rama, Lakshmana etc., and other traditional heroes? Suniti Kumar Chatterji⁴ has given a very nice analogy between the Homeric wars of Greece and the Mahabharata war. Just as it was considered a great matter of pride to be associated with those heroic legends, many claims were added at a later period. For example, Schafer's list of participants in the Great Battle includes most of the later South Indian States.