Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c6.47

c6.47

The Vedic literature gives us notices of ancient times from the brahmanic and religious points of view, and kṣatriya tradition enables us to picture ancient India and its political conditions from the kṣatriya standpoint. The kṣatriyas manifestly played the most important part in the Aryan conquest of India, and if we wish to discover and estimate what their position and achievements were, it is essential to study their traditions, for, as will be shown, the Purāṇic genealogies, and they alone, give an account how the Aila race dominated all the regions to which we assign the Aryan occupation, while the brahmanic literature contains no inkling whatever of that great transformation.