Ancient Indian Historical Tradition
- Delhi Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt Ltd 1997
- 368p
includes index and biblioraphy
general survey of ancient indain historical tradition tradition its preservers and the origins of thev puranas contents of the earliest puranas age of the orginal puranas brahmanikal and ksatriya tradition the puranas and their geneological texts general survey of the geneoloies the solar race the aila or lunar race general credibility of the geneologies consideration of names synchronisms and table of royal geneologies major synchronimes established the four ages and date of the bharatha battlebrahman families and chronological tables of rishis the bhargavas the visisthas the angriasas and kanvas the atreyas and kasyapas the visvamitras agastyas paulastyas and kratus ksatriyan ancient brahmans ancient history from tradition inferences suggested by traditional history the ancient brahmans and the vedas the vedic schools and teachers and the brahmans