Found inside – Page 106The disovery of these additional names led Dr. Mill to turn to the Puranic records , which mention a Gupta dynasty as reigning in ... calculated that their date " could scarcely be fixed higher than the age of Charlemagne in Europe " in the ninth century of our era . ... carrying back the chronology of the Puranas a few centuries . Found inside – Page 24Reign lengths vary according to the stability of the polity and stable dates tend to support longer reigns. ... Vedic Age, Bombay, 1952, Studies in the Epics and Puranas, Bombay, 1958; R. Morton-Smith, Dates and Dynasties in Early India, Delhi, ... Found inside – Page 18The paintings here date back to the Mesolithic period . The early medieval history of Kumaon is the history of the Katyuri dynasty . Found inside – Page 50It has indeed , been argued plausibly that a non - priestly bardic tradition of royal history existed in the Vedic age . ... however , underwent an eclipse on account of the disappearance of ancient Ksattriya dynasties in the post - Vedic age . ... took place in the Gupta age and consequently the date of the tradition presupposed in such references remains uncertain . ... earlier Brahmanical Puranas were receiving their present form out of a much more ancient material which harped back to ... Found inside – Page 269It is estimated that this inscription which Akişev dates back to one thousand BC can be dated back to the fourth or the ... Hsüan - tu ; Shen - tu / Sindhu ) , the old form of the Indus ( Sind ) river , according to a record from the Tang Dynasty . See Sircar 1990 , p . 68 - 69 ( the river names in the Purana texts ) ; Stein 1980 , p . Found inside – Page 130... military purposes was subsequently strengthened by a series of rulers even after the fall of the imperial Ganga dynasty . The traditional view regarding the date of the fort goes back to the Puranic age when king Virata was ruling in this part . Found inside – Page 49In the period before this date, the lists of the Brahmans taken together with the lists of Buddhists carry back the series of the kings of Magadha, ... Found inside – Page 1567... and histories of the royal dynasties. Written in narrative couplets, the Puranas date from c. ... His first known composition was written at age eight. Found inside – Page 395The concept of territorial monarchy, royal ownership of land and Puranic ... Sea-borne trade between these areas may date back to the iahgam age, ... Found inside – Page 51People of 19th dynasty in Egyptian civilization believed King Ramesses I is ... dating back to Apeman and the early civilized man lived in same period of ... Found inside – Page 21DATE OF PURANAS 21 scheme of North Indian chronology may be considered as ... the Southern dynasties , and the dates of logy . the Pallavas , a dynasty the ... Found inside – Page 65the Puranic genealogies extend down as far as these points , further chronological calculations are possible . ... of Nanda , presumably meaning Mahapadma as the founder of the Nanda dynasty ( or possibly meaning Nandivardhana , the first ... Obviously the resultant dates would be pushed farther back if the Puranic generation or step were estimated as of greater length ... and names the king who put an end to the brief Śaka rule CHRONOLOGY OF THE KALI AGE | 65 JAINA DATES / Found inside – Page 13This dynasty ended with the death of TiIndia and China . mæus , Thammuz , or Concharis . ... -1 , in it , a code of laws which he had the Salatis , 19 years ; 2 , Baion , 44 years ; 3 , good fortune to see inscribed on the back Apachnes , 37 years . During ... the Puranas , this age lasted 2,400,000 ; dynasty of shepherd kings . Found inside – Page 67Mahāpadma Nanda and his son reigned for 40 years according to Vāyu Purana ( Bhargawa , 1971 ) . The coronation of Mahāpadma Nanda therefore dates back to ... Found inside – Page 160Earliest evidence for iron in India dates back to before 1500 B.c. in ... the Puranas , which list over a hundred and twenty kings in one Vedic dynasty ... Found insidecomplete historical accounts, the Puranas, another set of ancient Indian ... going back before the time of Buddha and a delineation of many dynasties ... Found inside – Page 247The paintings here date back to the Mesolithic period . The early medieval history of Kumaon is the history of the Katyuri dynasty . Found inside – Page 8Translation and Justification of a Critical Text of the Purāṇa Dynasties R. Morton Smith Jagdish Lal Shastri ... on Va . , and on e Va . more than ever ; indeed we have become apt to follow e Va . when it is supported by any other Purana . ... in a sensibly correct reading , and even otherwise , their agreement indicates a certain age for divergent readings of e Va . ... But although very badly copied at some point , it goes back to a very good original indeed , and we would hope that some ... Found inside – Page 16The paintings here date back to the Mesolithic period . The early medieval history of Kumaon is the history of the Katyuri dynasty . Found inside – Page 61Here he surveyed the Puranic Chronology , beginning with the date of Mahabharata Battle15 which he considered as the ... grant ) ( c ) Kashmir Chronology20 ( d ) and with the Dynastic History of the Kings of Nepal21 ( e ) the dates of Buddha ... the divergent scholarly dates , freely invented in modern Indian History especially of the Hindu period , arrived largely on the ... sometime back regarding the tomb of Christ in Kashmir , thereby confirming the version of the “ Bhavisya Purana ... Found inside – Page 239Puranas , it is relevant to deal with the chronological position of the Rigveda and the historical The association of the several ... for pushing back the quite inadequate for associating them with the date of the Rigveda at least to the fifth millennium ... chronologically from the age of the so that there would be nothing wrong in assoRigveda , which knew nothing about ... 36 was the 20th ruler in the Ayodhya as proto - Harappan in certain regions , which dynasty , and is to be placed in c . Found inside – Page 380(Upa-puranas), but the lists vary greatly, as do their dates, about which no ... the reigns of the Manus (a different mythical Manu was born in each age, ... Found inside39 destruction of Atlantis or a most similar end to the empire and ... of India have dated this catastrophe back to 3102 b.c.e, 45 a date corresponding very ... Found inside – Page 8... Uttaranchal region ( Kumaun & Garhwal ) dates back to the Puranic age but authentic information of this era is hard to come by . The Ashoka's edict near Kalsi in Dehradun district would indicate that the Maurya empire extended to that area . Found inside – Page 241Table 165: Magadha or Bahadratha Dynasty of India from Puranas: All dates are B.C. ... age of Balaam, unless the time of Bela is moved much farther back. Found inside – Page 160Earliest evidence for iron in India dates back to before 1500 B.C. in ... in the Puranas , which list over a hundred and twenty kings in one Vedic dynasty ... Found inside – Page 36Describe the rulers of the Shaka dynasty and what do we learn from them? ... The Purana which date back to the Vedic age gained their final shape during the ... Found insideHistory and Geography Haryana has a proud history dating back to the Vedic Age. The state was home to the legendary Bharata dynasty, after which the country ... Found inside... and Geography Haryana has a proud history dating back to the Vedic Age. The State was home to the legendary Bharata dynasty, after which the country was ... Found insideAfter what may have been a long period of decline following Sudas, the Purus came to power again with the Kuru dynasty, of which Janamejaya of the Brahmanas ... Found inside – Page 40The use of the term Purana in the sense of a religious book dates back to the days of the Chandogya Upanishad ( 7.1.2 ) wherein Purana was declared to be the fifth Veda . ... The mention of Purana in the Apastamba Dharma - Sutra shows that the Puranas in the Sutra period discussed ... ( manvantaras ) , and accounts of royal dynasties ( vamshanucharita ) as the five topics discussed in the Puranas . Found inside – Page 75The list given in the Vishnu Purana for the kings of the Koçalas is somewhat longer ; it enumerates 116 kings from Manu to ... for the period between Prasenajit and the accession of Chandragupta , the longest of the lists preserved by the Indians ... The fixed point from which we must start is the year of the accession of Sandrakottos , a date rendered certain by the ... Brahmans taken together with the lists of Buddhists carry back the series of the kings of Magadha , which was the most ... Found insideExcavations at Mandoli and Bhorgarh in east and north-west Delhi respectively have thrown up remains of chalcolithic period dating back to 2nd millennium BC ... Found inside – Page 255A Comprehensive Work with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature Vettam ... Durjaya got back his former form and he was lifted upto Svarga. Found inside – Page 154The Matsya Purana lists several historic dynasties (271–273), ... However, history most clearly meets myth in the doctrine of the four ages or eons (yugas), ... Found inside – Page 182A Bengal manuscript of the Skanda Purana written in the Gupta hand has been assigned as early a date as the middle of the seventh century . ... and the Vaishnavite Puranas , and this takes the latter back to a period at least anterior to Kalidasa's time ( 6th century ) . ... on the The Puranas are not only valuable for the historic evidence of the dynasties of the Kali age which they contain , but the student of ... Found inside – Page 134probably introduced Buddhism, or, at all events, was the founder of that dynasty who held the sovereignty of the island for ... of the religion; a coincidence so remarkable, as to look very like such a pious fraud, as is too common with priests in all ages. ... the accession of Chandra Gupta 325, leaving exactly the 100 years of the Puranas between these dates, which, therefore, ... The Burmese annals help us back to an era they call that of Anjana, 691 3.0.3 They call this the era of the great ... Found inside – Page 20Chandragupta and count backwards for the date of the Mahabharata War by adding the interval of time between him and the Mahabharata War . ... the various Dynasties that reigned at Magadha after the Great War and the chronological calculations given in the Puranas . ... Padma Nanda back to the birth of Parikshit is one thousand and five hundred years.1 The Nagari Edition of this Purana reads as if ... Found inside – Page 92325 B.C. ) and concomitantly to push 174 all other events of Puranic history farther back . ... as well as in their inconsistencies , for all of them ascribed very extended patterns of father / son successions to their dynasties . ... The earlier date is D. R. Mankad , Puranic Chronology ( Anand , 1951 ) , passim ; the latest date is that of H. Raychaudhuri , Political ... the Haihayas , Vasistha and Aurva , " JRĀS ( 1919 ) , 353-67 ; The Puranic text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age ( London , 1913 ) . Found inside – Page 54For example, Buddha lived during 1887-1807 B.C. The adopted date of ... and thus the historical age of India can not be carried further back to 2000 years ... Found inside – Page 135... or the copyists of the Vişņu and Bhāgavata purāņas , which were compiled later ... the date of the Bhārata War would be shifted back at the most by 155 ... Found inside – Page 13Migno— C HAPTE R 2 WWW Initial Period of Different Religions Hinduism: t ... PuranaS and other texts provide dates of events that took Indian history, ... Found inside – Page 366Wilson's full opinion on the probable date of the Puranas : • The Puranas are also works of evidently different ages , and have been compiled under different circumstances , the precise nature of which we can but imperfectly conjecture from ... Found inside – Page 46... in early Purana cannot be conceived of in the Post - Puranic Age . ... the Origin of our ancient Puranas , the period of which is dated back even to the ... Found inside – Page 24The history of Vidarbha is traced back to Puranic period and the Vakatakas ruled over the region for well over centuries . The dynasty disappeared entirely from the stage about 550 A.D. when their place was taken by the Kalchuris of ... Found inside – Page 259From the Stone Age to the 12th Century Upinder Singh ... Brahmanical tradition include the Puranas , which provide useful information on dynastic history . Found inside – Page 366Wilson's full opinion on the probable date of the Puranas :* The Puranas are also works of evidently different ages , and have been compiled under different circumstances , the precise nature of which we can but imperfectly conjecture from ... Their inconsistencies, for all of them ascribed very extended patterns of /... 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