Tribes in Ancient India c53.9

c53.9

This story is evidently fanciful. Sister-marriage was not in vogue in ancient India even in the earliest times of which we have any record, as the story of Yama and Yamī in the Ṛgveda amply demonstrates. The descent from King Okkāka, however, may be based on fact. The Mahāvaṃsa too traces the origin of the Śākyas to Okkāka, and gives their genealogy in great detail, going back to Mahāsammata of the same dynasty.¹