The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s1.98

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¹ For a summary of this part of the chronicle, see *EI*, Vol. III, pp. 335 ff. Fleet, who first proposed the identification of Janamejaya and Yayāti of the inscriptions with the Janamejaya Kesari and Yayāti Kesarī of the chronicles, showed the utter unreliability of the chronological system of the *Pāñji*, and remarked that 'everything relating to ancient times, which had been written on the unsupported authority of these annals, has to be expunged bodily from the pages of history'; *ibid*, pp. 325-26 and 337-40. Mr. B. C. Mazumdar however thinks that the Kesari kings of the *Pāñji* must be identified with the Coḷa kings who invaded Orissa and 'who bore the title Kesari'; see *OM*, pp. 187 ff.