Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c32.78

c32.78

These particulars yield something like a chronological scheme, and all the more important of these teachers¹⁰ are shown in the following table, which is in continuation of those on pages 148–9 and 192. It starts with teachers contemporary with the Pāṇḍavas, Parikṣit II and Janamejaya III, and nearly all the persons in the first four columns are connected by synchronisms. There are few synchronisms touching the teachers in columns 5–8, yet something may be done to estimate their positions, for the notice of some of them in the Brāhmaṇas would no doubt warrant the inference that such a person flourished well before the Brāhmaṇa which mentions him, at least a quarter of a century prior. The steps are