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The Ikşodku Race and its Various Branches
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Mitrasaha Kalmaşapäda Saudása Both the versions state that Saudāsa developed a cannibalistic habit which led to his fall from regal office, but after spending some years of abnormal lise he regained sanity as well as his lost kingdom
As has already been pointed out, the kings of Bralimanıcal fame do not find their mention in the above lists in the same order of dcscent as in the epic-Purāņic lists of the Ayodhya branch of the solar kings King Vijaya, for example, who tops thc Jaina Puānic tists as an ancestor of Kakustha, Pșthu and Māndhāls is represented, in the Brahmanical dynastic lists as a descendant of all the three 76 Similarly, the Brahimanıcal tradıtion regards the above four biogs including Vijaya as the ancestors of Sagara77, but the Jaina tradition represents the latter as a forc-father of all the Ikşvāku rulers of note
Now, so far as the respective positions of Kahulstha and Raghu are concerned, the Jaina Purānas in their representation of the two as father and son are closer to thc Rāmāyana gcncalogy78 which, unlike the Puranic accounts, has bound these personages in the same relationship as the Jaina accounts. The reckoning of Naghusa, also sceins to have been based on the same Rāmāyana account?
King Aja's is, however, a different case Hc finds mcntion only in RPC by his original nomenclature But this work, too, has pushed him several steps above Dasarath280, the traditional son of the former 81 However, the works are 76 Vägup 88 25, 67a, 75a, 120a , HV 1 11 20b , 12 0b, 13 28 Vis p
42 32-34, 00 01, 43 25. For their position in the family tree sec
AIHT, pp 145, 147 77 AIHT, pp 145, 147 For his place in the line, see No 41 of the gene
alogical succession 78 (1) ... figereta TEFTATI
Råma 1 70 39b, (11) SETET GETS g 1997: 1
-Ibid 2 110 28b 70. i 70 41,2 110 33 80 See the list (above). 81 The epics and the Brahmanıcal Puranas unanimously represent Aja as
the father' of Dasaratha Rāmā 1 70.42 , 2 110 34, MBH 3.274 6, Vayup88'183 , Visp 4 4 86 , HY 1 16.26.
