Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c13.20

c13.20

they were Brâhmans and not Kshatriyas Thus then these dynasties reigned contemporaneously, and hence the 112 years that tradition assigns to the Śuṅgas includes the 45 assigned to the Kâṇvas The Śuṅgas and the Kânvas, therefore, were uprooted, and the family of the Andhrabhṛityas came to power in B C 73 In a general way, the number of princes belonging to this line is given as thirty in the Vâyu, the Vishnu, and the Bhâgavata, and twenty-nine in the Mâtsya, and the total duration is stated to be 411 years in the first, 456 in the second and the third, and 460 in the fourth The disagreement here is not great, wherefore the tradition as to thirty princes and about 456 years may be accepted as correct But the discrepancy between this general statement and the more particular accounts that follow, as well as the disagreement between the several Purânas in this last, is very great This will be apparent from the following table —