Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c15.9

c15.9

This is the only dynasty to which connected references occur in the Rigveda and that can be tested thereby. Those references entirely corroborate the genealogy; and the statements in the latter show that it could not have been framed therefrom but was independent. Its genuineness, accuracy and independence prove that it must have been contemporaneous with the dynasty and as old as the hymns themselves. This conclusion affords a very strong presumption that the other genealogies are also genuine and true; the want of evidence regarding them is wholly on the side of the Vedic literature, and its silence proves nothing adverse.