Tribes in Ancient India c32.62

c32.62

Many of the Purāṇas end their enumeration of the Kośala kings with Bṛhadbala, while some others, like the Bhāgavata,⁶ add a few more names of men who are called the future kings of the Ikṣvāku family. The Vāyupurāṇa also in a later chapter (Chap. 99) gives a list of the kings in the Ikṣvāku line after Bṛhadbala, whom it calls here Bṛhadratha. Five generations after this Bṛhadratha, the Vāyupurāṇa says that Divākara ‘is at present ruling the city of Ayodhyā’, and after Divākara it speaks of the so-called future kings of the line. This list is substantially the same as the one in the Bhāgavata, and one peculiar feature of these lists is that they include Śuddhodana and Rāhula, of Buddhist fame. The list in the *Matsyapurāṇa* (Chap. 12) from Kuśa to the Bhārata war is considerably shorter than the others already referred to. It speaks of Śrutaya as the king who fell in the Bhārata war.