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Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c14.s6: North Pañcāla Dynasty

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c14.s6

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North Pañcāla Dynasty

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Ajamīḍha

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Nila

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Suśānti

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Purujānu or Purujāti

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Rkṣa

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Bhṛmyaśva (who had five sons called the Pañcālas)

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Mudgala ¹ Sṛñjaya Bṛhadiṣu Yavīnara Kāmpilya

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¹ From Mudgala were descended the Maudgalyas; see chap. XXIII. ² From him were the Maitreyas, brahmans.

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| a king or Kapila,

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Brahmiṣṭha = Indrasenā or Kṛmilāśva

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Vadhryaśva = Menakā

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Divodāsa (Atithigva) Ahalya = Śaradvant (Āṅgirasa)

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Mitrayu |

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Maitreya Soma ² Śatānanda (whose successor was, apparently his son,)

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Sṛñjaya

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Cyavana-Pañcajana (Pijavana)

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Sudāsa (Sudās)-Somadatta

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Sahadeva (Suplan) Satyadhṛti

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Somaka-Ajamīḍha |

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Jantu | (whose distant descendant was) |

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Pṛṣata |

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Drupada Kṛpa Kṛpī is a very noteworthy dynasty, because many of its kings play an important part in the Rigveda. Pañcajana appears to be a mistake for the Vedic Pijavana, and Sudāsa is the Vedic Sudās.¹ It stands with its incidental information as in the preceding table.

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¹ This dynasty is considered in chap. X, and fully in JRAS, 1918, pp. 229 f.

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Bhṛmyaśva’s territory was apparently subdivided among his five sons as petty rājās. The eldest branch soon rose to prominence under Vadhryaśva, Divodāsa, and Sudās. It decayed after Sudās’ death and was subdued by Saṃvaraṇa of the main Hastināpura line.² It then became insignificant, and so there is a large gap after Jantu until Pṛṣata revived the dynasty in Bhīṣma’s time. Droṇa with the aid of the Hastināpura princes conquered Pṛṣata’s son Drupada, retained North Pañcāla for himself, and transferred him to South Pañcāla,³ so that this family reigned over South Pañcāla in the period treated of in the Mahābhārata. From Sṛñjaya of the main branch here were descended the Sṛñjayas and from Somaka the Somakas, both of which families attended Drupada⁴ who was a Somaka.⁵ This dynasty is also noteworthy because it became brahmanic, as will be explained in chapter XXIII.

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² See synchronisms in chap. XIV.

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³ MBh i, 138, 5444–5513; 166, 6341–54.

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⁴ Sṛñjayas, MBh i, 138, 5476: vi, 16, 631: &c. Somakas, i, 185, 6975; 193, 7174: vi, 75, 3288: &c. Both, vi, 89, 3889; 90, 3952.

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⁵ Called Saumaki, MBh i, 131, 5192.

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