Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c29.217

c29.217

About this time Kalmāṣapāda reigned at Ayodhyā, and the kingdom seems to have gone through trouble immediately afterwards, because the genealogies then give two lines of kings (pp. 93–4), which suggest that there was a division with two rival lines reigning for some six or seven kings, until Dilīpa II Khaṭvāṅga re-established the single monarchy. It seems possible to connect this split with Kalmāṣapāda’s conduct to Vasiṣṭha described above (pp. 208–9), for it can hardly be doubted that the brahmans of Ayodhyā would have been inflamed and have sought revenge. This would explain the statements that Sarvakarman in one line was brought up in secret, and that Mūlaka in the other fled to the forest for safety. There would have been a contest similar to that of Rāma Jāmadagnya’s time described above, and the two contests would through the lack of the historical sense have been confused in brahmanic stories as shown (p. 152).