Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c30.15

c30.15

According to these traditions royal power first developed mainly in the Gangetic plain, in the towns Ayodhyā, Mithilā, Pratiṣṭhāna and Gayā, with an off-lying branch at Kuśasthalī on the western sea-coast, and apparently two others on the rivers Narbadā and Tapti. The *Mānva* city Ayodhyā is made the most ancient,⁷ and these allegations imply that civilization was as far advanced (or perhaps more so) among the *Mānvas* as among the Ailas, when the latter entered India.