Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c11.39

c11.39

The Rāmāyaṇa² is, as it professes to be, altogether a brahmanical book. Some of its genealogies agree with those in the Puranas, and where it differs from them, as in the Aikṣvāku line, it is manifestly wrong, as will be shown in chapter VIII. The legends it narrates or mentions are generally distorted according to brahmanical notions and through the brahmanical lack of the historical sense.³