________________ 206 Homage to Vaisali brahma-vadini' (hence most likely coming of a family closely related with brahmanas), and who is also listed in some of the dynastic lists as a ruling king' or sovereign. Since Marutta adopted Dusyanta, it seems very probable that this Ilina was a daughter of Marutta himself, and so closely connected with Angirasa brahmanas; for there is not much point in a total outsider being adopted into a royal family unless the adopted prince becomes or is matrimonially connected with branches of the adopting house: (as in the case of Karandhama-Turvasa being adopted by Khaninetra-Iksvaku, as detailed above: so closely did the Turvasa graft become identified with Vaisali in this way, that the gatapatba Brahmana (xiii, 5, 4, 6) calls his son, Maiutta, an "ayogava" king, referring to the tradition of the Farmer Kings of Vaisali). Unlike Karaadbama a Aviksita, and like Marutta, Dusyanta, as is well known, married, against much Court opposition apparently led by the Angirasa priesthood of Vaisali, not into an Iksvaku family but into an Aila one, a Kausika (Vaisvamitri) princess. It is fitting, therefore, that Dusyanta is known in chronicles as Ailina-Dusyanta and that the Bharatas are also called Tttsavas or TftsavaBharatas.-Marutta had another daughter noted throughout in tradition, as having been given in marriage to his Angirasa priest, Samvartta. Probably the other remarkable brahma-vadini' lady named Mamata, who was a wife to Samvartta's brother, Utathya, and also to another brother, Vtbaspati, was another daughter of the same emperor Marutta. In that case it becomes easily explained why her son Bharadvaja's son (or grandson) Vitatha (Vidathin) was adopted as Bharata's successor in perference to his own sons, regarded unfit, for this adopted heir would be just a closely related cousin of Bharata. This would also illustrate the revival and persistence of the Angirasa brahmanic influence over Karandhama's empire, which was only temporarily eclipsed during (the engrafted Aila) Dusyanta by Kanva-Kasyapa (really Aila) and (Aila) Kausika influence at court (through Sakuntala)- It is to be noted that, while in the Paurava king-lists (with the Turvasa lists) the names are Marutta, Dusyanta, Bharata (or Varutba) surnamed Dama, Damapa, or Sarva-Damana, and Bharadvaja Vitatha (or Vidathin), in the Vaisali king-lists the names are Marutta, Nrsyanta (Narisyanta), dama (damapa) and Rastra-vardhana' (which seems more a title than a name). Evidently we have here the same kings ruling over the combined territories of the Turvasas, Pauravas, and Vaisaleyas, (together with those of the Videhas and the Vidarbbas, perhaps temporarily and only in the time of Marutta himself, for the names Maru and Marutta are found in the king-lists of these two regions also in the same period).
