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favours freely and indiscriminately, and to have left a numerous pro¬ 
geny of various ranks in Aijga and Magadha, not only without incur¬ 
ring any reprobation but even with emphatic approval and blessing 
from Surabhi (Matsya Pur., xlviii. 60-63 and 79-84; and also Sabha-p., 
xx. 802 with Adi-p., civ. 4193-4216). The result of such prnctices 
must have been an infusion of Aryan blood into the populace and the 
growth of classes, which (like the Eurasians of the present day) would 
have sought to connect themselves more with the Aryan aristocracy 
than with their aboriginal kindred ; and it would not be an altogether 
unreasonable and extravagant assertion to say that, in countries where 
an extensive blending of that sort occurred, the people were descended 
from the invading leader who founded a new dynasty or territorial 
sovereignty. 
Looked at in this way the story may therefore possibly be true 
that five brothers Aijga, Vaijga, Kaliijga, Pundra and Suhma may 
have conquered five countries, established five kingdoms, and given 
their names to their countries and the inhabitants ; but it cannot be 
pushed beyond this, nor can they have been the progenitors of the 
bulk of the people, because the genealogies make king Loma-pada, 
who was the contemporary of Da^a-ratha and Rama, only the fifth 
or sixth descendant of Aijga ; and because it is impossible that the 
country of Aijga could have been uninhabited before Agga’s time, or 
that his descendants could have extirpated the previous inhabitants or 
filled the country themselves in so short a time. 
There is, however, one serious objection to this explanation, viz., 
there is no mention that these countries had any other names prior to 
the age of these five brothers, and they bear the same names in the 
earliest allusions. The two most prominent of these countries in the 
most ancient times were Agga and Kaligga, and the earliest references 
to them occur, I believe, in the marriages of kings of the Lunar dynasty 
with princesses of these countries ( e.g ., Adi-p., xcv. 3772-80). From 
the general tenor of the old stories, and according to the genealogies if 
they are traced downward from Puru or Anu, it appears incontestable 
that those kings belonged to a prior time (e.g., see the two lines of 
Rceyu and Kakseyu in Hari-V., xxxi. and xxxii.) ; but if the genealogies 
are reckoned upwards from the Pandavas’ time, this inference is much 
weakened, so that it does not seem absolutely impossible the founding of 
Aijga and Kaligga may have been earlier than those kings, and thus the 
difficulty might disappear. Otherwise it may be, supposing there is 
truth in this story of the five brothers, that, if Agga was really the 
later name, it superseded the ancient name so completely that it was 
substituted for the ancient name in the genealogies; for it seems a 
