The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c2.27

c2.27

6. The only copy of the Bhaviṣya which contains this dynastic matter is the Veṅkaṭeśvara edition, but its account is altogether vitiated and worthless. It says each Paurava king reigned at least 1000 years, and Kṣemaka’s son was Pradyota (III, i, 3, 82–96); and it declares that Gautama founded Buddhism in Mahānanda’s time, that Gautama reigned ten years, and that his successors were Śākyamuni, Śuddhodana, Śākya-siṃha, his son Buddhasimha, and his son Candragupta (ibid. 6, 35–43). It dilates, however, on more recent ‘history’ with elaborate details, and with a great quantity of new matter boldly fabricated brings its prophecies down to the nineteenth century³. In other copies the ancient matter has dropped out, and some very modern events have been particularized⁴.