Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c18.20

c18.20

This group is connected with the preceding group by both the Ayodhyā and Kānyakubja genealogies, and also by the collateral statement that Kuśika, Gādhi’s father, married Paurukutsī, a ‘descendant of Purukutsa’, and she was Gādhi’s mother.³ Jahnu was a contemporary of Purukutsa’s son Trasadasyu (ante), and Viśvāmitra of Triśaṅku. The genealogies give seven descents from Jahnu to Viśvāmitra, and eight descents from Trasadasyu to Triśaṅku. They thus tally, and Paurukutsī was Purukutsa’s descendant in about the sixth degree.