The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s3.27

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The testimony of the Purānas that the dynasty endured for either 456 or 460 years, or, in round numbers, four centuries and a half, appears to be substantially accurate. The number of the kings also appears to be correctly stated as having been thirty. The following dynastic list has been constructed on the assumption that the best texts of the Purānas are right in fixing the number of kings as thirty, and therefore omits an extra king, No. 24 *a*, who appears only in a single manuscript of the *Vāyu Purāṇa*.²