The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.7

c16.s1.7

Another defect arises out of regional and linguistic factors. The scribes of the regions added their own passages to glorify the particular regions. A very interesting example was detected while going through the Telugu edition of the *Bhagavata Purana*. Both the *Harivamsa* and *Brahmanda* describe that Bali's five sons, and that *Anga, Vanga, Kalinga, Pundra* and *Suhma* were the eponymous ancestors of the five eastern kingdoms.² The Andhra scribe cleverly manipulated the verse to make it six sons instead of five, and added Andhra as one of the States founded by the Titikshu family.³ Such instances can be multiplied and some of the castes have their own versions, or added them as *upapuranas* to the main ones. For example, the Nagar brahmins of Gujarat have a *Nagarakhanda* as an *upapurana* of *Skanda* to deal with Vadnagar and their community.