Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c31.53

c31.53

The Kāśyapas arose in Madhyadeśa after the Haihaya devastations (p. 232). During all that period the Paurava kingdom in Madhyadeśa was in abeyance, and there is no mention of any brahmans with the northern branch of the Yādavas (p. 261), or the Ānavas or the Druhyus. Later on, the Āṅgirasas, who appeared in the non-Aila kingdom of Vaiśālī, moved west to the Aila realm of Kāśi (p. 220) and then to the newly revived Paurava kingdom in the Ganges-Jumna doab in Bharata’s time, where they flourished greatly and admitted into their ranks the kṣatriyan brahmans who developed soon afterwards among his descendants (pp. 247 f). Kaṇva Kāśyapa was there in Duṣyanta’s time (p. 232). In fact, in the Ganges-Jumna doab, the region specially occupied by the Ailas, it was not until Duṣyanta’s and Bharata’s period that any brahman became connected with them as priest (p. 232).