Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c17.2

c17.2

THE genealogies regarded singly help to elucidate difficulties, as in distinguishing between different kings and rishis of the same names, and how necessary this is will appear from the articles on Divodāsa, Vasiṣṭha, Viśvāmitra, Bharadvāja, &c., in the *Vedic Index*, where the information drawn solely from Vedic literature with its lack of the historical sense leaves many points in perplexity, because different persons of the same name cannot be distinguished therefrom.