Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c13.21

c13.21

[32] Thus, the Vâyu has seventeen princes and 272 years and a half, and the Mâtsya, thirty and 448 and a half The Vishnu gives twenty-four names and the Bhâgavata, twenty-two This last Purâṇa has in many cases corrupted the names and confounded Hâla with the Arishṭakarman of the Vishnu, whom it names Anishṭakarman Hâleya It also omits the fifth prince of the Vishnu Purâṇa The details given in the Mâtsya come very close to the general tradition and thus confirm it Should we then attribute the very great discrepancy between these details and those of the Vâyu to the corruption of the text of the latter? Two or three names might drop away in this manner, but the omission of thirteen names and the reduction of the total duration by 176 years must I think be accounted for in