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Dyrastic Luls and Genealogical Accounts
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Now, it will not be unrcasonablc to statc that onc of the motives behind this revised and recast representation of the Solar and thc Lunar dynastics might have bcen its aiming at thc purging of thcsc dynastics from their divine origin, ascribed by the Brahmanical cpic-Puranic tradition to the godheads Sürya and Candra respectivcly But a closc study of the Jaina accounts reveals that the way, in which the rationalization has been cllccted, is far from being sausfactory, for more than onc rcason First, the names in question are stated to have oned their origin to such persons who, as the Jaina accounts show, have nothing to their crcdit in the uni. versal development. They appear insignificant both on spiritual and mundanc planes and look like pigmies before the towering personality of their fathers and grandfather. Sccondly, Bharata, father of Adityayasas, having been rep. rescnicd as the first universal monarch ol matchless prowess and Bahubalın, Somayaśas, father, having been portrayed as the Caramasarırın of immense physical and spiritual strength, it would have been logical to namc thc respcctive lines aftcr Bharala and Bahubalın rather than after their uninspiring sons.
Furthermore, the unpac! of the Brahmanical tradition 15 so profound that in spic of thc Jinistrcprcscntation of the above lines as sub-branches of the Ikşvāku race, it 15 only thc Adulyatamsa which finds mcntion as the Iksvaku or Aikşvāka race, and so far as we know, nowhere in the works under investigation the gencric term Ikşvāku has cver been applied to the Somavamsa whose claim to that title, according to these versions, should have been as strong as that of the Āduyavamsa Under the circumstances, it is not extraordinary that the majority95 of thc Digambara Purānakāras parted company with their brethren in their dynastic and , gencalogical scheme and represented the Somavamsa as distinct from the Iksvaku dynasty and identical with the Kuru line
Notwithstanding the aforesaid incongruity and discrepancy, the representation of the Adityavamsa and Somavamsa as
08 Jinasena II, Gunabhadra, Puşpadanta and śubhacandra
