History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c15.s3.20

c15.s3.20

¹ The Vishṇu misread the text of the Vāyu and made the groups from the Mahishī rulers to the Mekalā kings, including the ‘Vaivāhikāḥ’ (misreading it as ‘Vālhikāḥ’) sons of Vindhyaśakti [cf. the commentator, ‘tat-putrāḥ, Vindhyaśaktyādīnām putrāḥ’]. The text of the Vishṇu is tat-putrāḥ trayodaśaiva Vālhikāḥ trayaḥ tataḥ Pushyamitra-Padhumitra-Padmamitrās trayo daśa | Mekalāś cha | (Wilson, V.P., 4, 213). It applied the santati originally referring to the Mekalas and the figure daśa of the Traya-Pushyamitra group [§ 74] to the kings following Vindhyaśakti and coming before the Mekalās in the text of the Vāyu, i.e., the ‘three’ Vālhikas (i.e., the Vaivāhikas) and the ten Pushyamitras-Padhumitras-Padmamitras. As the number 13 was thus completed, about the Mekalas [the real descendants] it said ‘and also the Mekalas’. The Bhāgavata following the Vishṇu was content with 13 sons. It is evident that the Vishṇu found santati after and with the Mekalas.