History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v2.c28.24

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These three clans, it is now admitted by researchers (see introduction by Mr. Crooke himself to Tod's Rajastan page XXXI) do not belong to the Agnikula creation origin, but the necessary inference from this is not drawn by them. If the Chāhamānas and the Prātihāras, the two most important clans who were supposed to be Gujars transformed into Kshatriyas by purification, are proved to be no longer Agnikulas but on the contrary were believed to be solar in descent in the 9th and 10th centuries, does not the whole theory of foreign descent fall to the ground? But this is not all. Even the fourth, the Paramāras are not Agnikulas as represented by Chand. In fact stone inscription records of these Paramāras from the 12th century though giving the origin of the Paramāras from the fire of Vasiṣṭha, do not give the story of the Rāsā, but an entirely different story. Vasiṣṭha is said therein to have created the first Paramāra to chastise Viśvāmitra who was taking away the divine cow belonging to the former. The Udepur Praśasti for instance (Ep. Ind I.) gives this story and states that the gotra of the Paramāras is consequently Vasiṣṭha. This gotra is still claimed by the Paramāras all over India and is also given by Chand.