Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c18.43

c18.43

These results lead on to further synchronisms in and after Sagara’s time. The Haihayas, as mentioned, overran Madhyadeśa, so that the Paurava kingdom in the Ganges-Jumna doab was overthrown; and this conclusion is corroborated by the fact that the hordes from the north-west, who aided them in the conquest of Ayodhyā, could not have reached it without passing over the Paurava territory and also the Kānyakubja kingdom, which disappeared from this time, for its genealogy ceases with Viśvāmitra's grandson Lauhi. Sagara's destruction of the Haihaya power would naturally have carried him to the Narbadā and their capital there, Māhiṣmatī. South of that was the kingdom of Vidarbha, and there are notices which show that it had just come into existence then. An account of Sagara's expedition there says the Vidarbha king made peace with him by giving him his daughter Keśinī in marriage,¹ and the genealogies say clearly that Sagara had two wives, and the best of them name one as Keśinī daughter of Vidarbha himself,² who gave his name to the country. Vidarbha therefore was a generation earlier than Sagara.