The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.46

c16.s1.46

A very close analysis of the accounts of the Puranas by Pargiter showed him three unrelated traditions about the origin of the three main elements Ailas, Manvas and Sudyumnas. "In it (the myth regarding the origins), there is no connection between Manu's nine sons and Pururava Aila and Sudyumna except through Ila with her fabulous changes of form. It seems probable that three different myths have been blended together in an attempt to unify the origins of three different dominant races, said to have been derived from Manu, Pururavas and Sudyumna, and apparently constituting three separate stocks."¹ He suggested the very interesting possibility that the Ailas represent the Aryan, the Manavas represent the Dravidian and that the Sudyumnas represent the Austro-Asiatic (Munda and Mon-khmer).