Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.8

c3.8

In accordance with the above sketch, the present section contains four Chapters dealing with the kings and traditions assigned to the respective periods. We do not, however, commit ourselves to an admission of the historicity or the authenticity of the individual kings or their achievements herein given. We have stated the facts, compared them with others, and suggested the hints or clues which may prove true in future. This is the only thing possible, we believe, in the present state of our knowledge of ancient India, specially of the period just preceding the Buddha.