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Aspects of Brahmanıcal Influence on the Jarna Mythology
Arleya reveal, at Icast their nomenclative relationship with the persons bearing these names in the epic-Purānic genealogical accounts of the Aila race One Sumitra, for example, has been mentioned in the Mahābhārata74 as an ancient king of celcbrity. Another passage of the same work refers to him as a Harhaya king ? Still another Sumiita with a more definite lineal relationship with the Pädava Ailas is reckoned among the sons of Vrşnı 70 Next, a king styled Suorata is included, :n the Brahmanıcal tradition, among the sons of king Ušīnara, the eighth descendant of Anu, sun of Tazātı by Sarmıştha All the reser. ences to these persons, though included in divergent sub-lines and represented as generations apart from each other, point to their similarity to the Jaina counterparts, for all these personages eventually belong to the same stock called Aila
Advcrting to the other names of the above lists we find that JHV does not include Stivardhana and Srivrhşa among the descendants of Auleya, and makes Kunima, the fourth descendant of Ilāvardhana of VPC and RPC, son and successor of Alleya Similarly, Sapljajanta has been pushcd a few steps below, where, as Sañjaya, he has been represented as the grandson of Pulonian and son of his second son Carama And, all these differences between VPC and RPC on the one hand and JHV on the other, may be ascribed to the fact of the latter's greater dependence on the VH than on the previous works.
Now, the lists in the first two works stop short with Puloman and other Puranas do not contain any workable
74 11 176 (C) 76 XII 1 125 (C)
"EFATTAH TAFTEET..... It must be noted here that according to thc Brahmanical sources, the Harhagas formed a branch of thc radavas of the Alla race Vide AIHT,
P 102. 70 गान्धारी चैव माद्री च वृष्णेर्भार्ये वभूवतु । गान्धारी जनयामास मुमिय मित्रनन्दनम् ।।
-Vayu P 98 16b-174
latsyap 46 1 Also AIHT, pp. 104-105 77. V'dyu p 19 18-20, HV 31 23-28, Matsya P, 48 16-18.
