GENEALOGICAL TABLES. 



The purpose of the present division of our Appendix is by no means 

 to attempt any improvement, nor even a critical adjustment, of the cata- 

 logues of princes preserved in the legendary records of the brahmans, 

 but merely to afford a succinct synopsis of the principal ancient and 

 modern dynasties of India, and of the neighbouring countries, for 

 reference as to names, and, where accessible, as to dates. 



For the early or mythological history of the Hindus, little can be done 

 beyond enumerating the mere names, and marking the few variations 

 in the lists of Sir Wm. Jones, Wilford, Bentle^, Hamilton, Wilson, 

 and latterly, Col. Tod, who have endeavoured, successively, to trace the 

 parallelism of the solar and lunar races, and assign to them more 

 probable dates than those extravagantly put forth in the Purdnas. As 

 the regular succession from father to son is given in them it was not a 

 difficult task to apply the ordinary term of human generation, derived 

 from the authentic histories of other countries, to the adjustment of the 

 Hindu Chronology. Thus Rama in the solar line, who is placed by the 

 brahmans between the silver and brazen ages, (867102 B. C.,) was 

 brought down by Sir Wm. Jones to B. C. 2029, and reconciled with the 

 Rama of Scripture : Pradyota, of the lunar race, in whose reign the last 

 Buddha appeared, was brought down to B. C. 1029, the assumed epoch 

 of Sakya in Tibet and China : and Nanda to 699, &c. In the case of the 

 Magadha Rajas this adjustment was the more easy, because the length 

 of each dynasty is given in reasonable terms from Jarasandha, the con- 

 temporary of Yudhisthira, downwards; and the error might be only in 

 the wrong assumption of the initial date, the epoch of the Kali Yuga, 

 which the pandits allotted to the year 3101 B. C. After the discovery of 

 the identity of Chandragupta with Sandracottus, pointed out by Sir 

 Wm. Jones, (As. Res. iv. 26,) and followed up by Wilford, (v. 262,) 

 a further reduction of 250 years in the position assigned to him in 

 Sir William's first list became necessary ; and the diminished rate of 

 generations, applied backwards, brought Yudhisthira, and his con- 



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