Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c18.40

c18.40

The first story makes Divodāsa I contemporary with Bhadraśreṇya and Durdama. The second makes Haryaśva contemporary with Vitahavya’s sons, so that he falls after Vitihotra of the genealogies. The intermediate kings have been lost, as would be natural in the confusion of the dispossession.² Hence Haryaśva’s great grandson Pratardana would fall just after Supratīka, the last Vitihotra-Haihaya king named in the genealogies, and this would be his natural position as the destroyer of the Vitahavya or Vitihotra family. Pratardana did not subdue all the Haihayas. It was Sagara who did that, hence Pratardana cannot be placed after Sagara. Sagara evidently completed what Pratardana began, hence he must be placed alongside Pratardana. These traditions then establish the following synchronisms, and these stories and the genealogies are in harmony :—