Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c19.46

c19.46

This is corroborated by another allusion. In two lists of royal munificence to brahmans it is said king Śatadyumna gave a splendid furnished house to the brahman Maudgalya,⁵ descendant of king Mudgala, of N. Pañcāla (chapter IX). King Mudgala therefore was earlier than Śatadyumna. The only Śatadyumna mentioned was a king of Videha, Sīradhvaja's second successor. Sīradhvaja was Rāma's father-in-law (ante), so Śatadyumna would have been Rāma's younger contemporary and therefore (according to the synchronisms just set out) a contemporary of Sṛñjaya of N. Pañcāla. Sṛñjaya was Mudgala’s fourth or fifth successor, and the Maudgalya brahmans would have been established three or four generations in Śatadyumna’s time—thus entirely harmonizing with the above allusion.