Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c8.101

c8.101

Other lists are found,⁶ but it is unnecessary to quote more. They contain most of the foregoing names and new names also, but the compilers were no experts, for the names are generally jumbled together without dynastic, genealogical or chronological order. A very few lists do aim at chronological order, and the longest is one that describes the descent of the sword of justice,⁷ thus—Manu, Kṣupa, Ikṣvāku, Purūravas, Āyus, Nahuṣa, Yayāti, Pūru, &c.; but the order after Pūru is worthless, thus it places Ailavila (Dilīpa II) before Dhundhumāra, Mucukunda and Yuvanāśva, though he was long posterior to them in the Ayodhyā line. This list is in the Śānti-parvan and is a brahmanical compilation with the usual brahmanical lack of the historical sense, yet it shows who were remembered as righteous rulers even by brahmans.