Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c31.22

c31.22

There can be no doubt that herein we have ancient tradition. The close connexion constantly asserted between Uśanas-Śukra and the Daityas and Dānavas ⁶ could not have been the product of later times, when the Bhārgavas were a renowned family and those people were regarded as demonic. So also as regards the early Ailas, because from them were descended the Yādavas and Pauravas, from the Yādavas sprang Kṛṣṇa, and from the Pauravas the famous Bhāratas. To praise Uśanas-Śukra ⁷ and these early Ailas ⁸ would be the natural inclination of after times; but to depict the latter as inimical to brahmans would be repugnant, hence the allusions that present them as such are specially noteworthy.