History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s1.28

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58. The older Purāṇas do not mention the caste of the Vindhyakas, but the Viṣṇu Purāṇa has fallen into a confusion by a misreading of the Matsya text. The Matsya Purāṇa after closing the Āndhra list and giving the dynasties contemporary with the Āndhras, says in Chapter 272, verse 24,— teshūtsanneshu Kālena tataḥ Kilakilā nṛipāḥ. With this line the Matsya closes its chronicles and then enters from verse 25 onwards on a description of the ‘Yavana’ rule, which means here the Kushan rule (Yauna, Yauvan²). The Viṣṇu reads the first line of that description along with the Kilakilā kings, the next line of the Matsya being bhavishyantīha Yavanā dharmato kāmato’rthataḥ. The author of the Viṣṇu paraphrases these two lines in these words—‘teshūchhanneshu Kailakilā Yavanā bhūpatayo bhavishyanti mūrdhābhishiktas teshām Vindhyaśaktiḥ’. In this the Viṣṇu is not followed by the Bhāgavata, and the commentator of the Viṣṇu gives another reading and explains it correctly that Vindhyaśakti, according to that