Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.199

c9.s7.199

¹ We may go even further and characterise certain statements of the Purāṇic bards as self-contradictory. Thus (a) Pradyota is said to have been anointed when the Vitihotras *had passed away*, (b) Śiśunāga destroyed the prestige of the Pradyotas and became king, and yet (c) contemporaneously with these *Śaiśunāga kings* 20 Vitihotras (and other lines) are said to have *endured the same time*.