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Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c29.267

Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c29.267

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c29.267

About this time there reigned in North Pañcāla Sṛñjaya, his son Cyavana-Pijavana and his son Sudāsa-Somadatta, the Vedic Sudās (p. 120). Cyavana was a great warrior, and Sudās extended his territory.¹¹ They raised the dynasty to its height. They seem to have conquered both the Dvimīḍha dynasty and South Pañcāla, for there is admittedly a gap in the former genealogy (p. 115) which appears to occur at this time, and the reference to king Nipa and his sons in the latter implies the same apparently at this time, just as a similar remark about Somaka afterwards ¹² certainly