Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c18.3

c18.3

There is a very early group of synchronous kings. The Aikṣvāku genealogy of Ayodhyā states plainly that Prasenajit’s son Yuvanāśva married Gaurī and their son was Māndhātṛ. The Paurava genealogy says Matināra’s daughter Gaurī was mother of Māndhātṛ. Here there can be no doubt, for the statements are separate and explicit (chapter VI). Prasenajit therefore was contemporary with Matināra, Yuvanāśva was one generation below and Māndhātṛ two generations. Further, the Ayodhyā genealogy says that Māndhātṛ married Śaśabindu’s daughter Bindumatī Caitrarathī, who was the eldest of many brothers;¹ and the Yādava genealogy names Śaśabindu, son of Citraratha, as a famous king who had very many sons.² Here also there can be no doubt; hence Māndhātṛ was one generation below Śaśabindu. Next Jahnu of Kānyakubja married the granddaughter of Yauvanāśva,³ that is, Māndhātṛ; hence he was two generations below Māndhātṛ.⁴ From all these we have a clear set of synchronisms thus—