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differences and discrepancies As noted before, there are at least two schools among the authors While one school presents the originator of the line as a contemporary of Ikşvāku,83 the other school makes him considerably posterior to the latter. Now, it is obvious that the said founder of the line could not have bcen both contemporary with and posterior to Ikşvāku by a long temporal distance of countless years, as the Jaina traditions make us believe Naturally, these two divergent ways of representation eventually result in mutual stultification
Over and above that the Puranas which assign the origin of the line to the period of Srtalanatha, are at great variance with regard to the place, parentage and progenitorship of the person represented as the father of the Haris VPC34 and RPC,36 for instance, set forth Har as the reincarnation of Sumukha and father of the Harz-line as well without mention of the kingdom which he occupied. But JHV does not concede that privilege to the incomer whom the work leaves unnamed, and transfers the fathership of the line to his son whom it calls Harı 38 Gunabhadra, 37 Puspadanta38 and Subhacandra 39 on the other hand, though acknowledging the carly origin of the dynasty, actually start its genealogy with the later incarnation of Sumukha Thus, unlıhe earlier works, the UP, PMP and SPP describe
33 Vide note 2 (supra) 34 21 5-7 35 21 7-9 30 अथ तयोस्तनयो हरिरित्यभूद्धरिरिव प्रथित पृथिवीपति ।
-15 67a and हरिरय प्रभव प्रथमोऽभवत् सुयशसो हरिवशकुलोद्गते । जगति यस्य सुनाम-परिग्रहाच्चरति भो हरिवश इति श्रुति ॥
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37 Utarapurāna, 70 8.91 38 Mabāpurana LXXXI 13 12-19 12 39 Pandavapurăņa, 7 119-129
