Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c15.19

c15.19

Seventhly, the genealogies give an account, how the Aryans dominated North India and the north-west of the Dekhan, and it is the only account to be found in the whole of Sanskrit literature of that great ethnological fact. They do not allude to that conquest except in very general terms,¹ yet those terms show they did know of it. They give no actual account of that, but the genealogies when co-ordinated show how the ‘Aila’ race extended its rule over precisely the very regions over which the Aryans established themselves. This subject will be fully dealt with hereafter (chapter XXV). This outcome was not the object of the genealogies, and they were not constructed to establish it; hence the fact that they do tacitly disclose how a great ethnological change took place is strong evidence that they are genuine and true.