The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.32

c16.s1.32

This admitted inconsistency between the Vedic and the Puranic evidence is exactly tackled by Bhargava, with very important results for future work.² Only defect, if any, of this pioneer effort is a somewhat uncritical acceptance of the *Manu-flood-Kali synchronism*. His genealogical list closely follows the lists of Pargiter and Pusalkar. But the greatest merit of Bhargava's work lies in the use of the Vedic and the Later Vedic literature to locate the ancestral homes of the later descendants of the main royal families that spread and established kingdoms all over Northern India. Secondly he has mustered the entire literary evidence to show a nice time-space co-ordinate for the Aryan expansion for the first time. In this attempt he made slight modifications of the genealogical lists and rounded it off by making it 100 generations before Parikshit. Since his data has more interesting possibilities than probably what Bhargava ever thought, we use his serial number of generations as a sort of sequence dating to make his time-space co-ordinate intelligible. He divides this period into :