Essay name: Purana Bulletin
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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.
Purana, Volume 9, Part 1 (1967)
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啶啶班ぞ啶｀ぎ啷� - [pur膩峁嘺m - ] 笔鲍搁膧狈础
[Vol. IX., No. 1
told of the N膩gas of Vidi艣膩, along with some other monarchs,
and on the other hand we get Vindhya艣akti's son Prav墨ra and
Prav墨ra's four sons. Then we are informed of the cessation of
the Vindhyaka family and provided with a list of various sub-
sequent rulers and dynasties who are not distinguished in terms
of time and whose beginnings must therefore be taken as simult-
aneous. Among them are the Guptas.
Chandr膩峁兣沘 stands with the N膩gas of Vidi艣膩. About them
Pargiter's text鹿 runs: "Bhogin, son of the N膩ga king Se峁, will
be king, conqueror of his enemie's cities a king who will exalt
the N膩ga family. Sadachandra, and Chandra峁兣沘 who will be
a second Nakhavant, then Dhanadharman, and Vangara is
remembered as the fourth. Then Bh奴tinanda will reign in the
Vaidi艣a kingdom."
As Sesha enters only as the father of Bhogin and is not
directly put forth as a king of this period, it is with Bhogin we
must start, setting him in time on a level with Vindhya艣akti
in the post-Andhra epoch. Sad膩chandra being the same as
Chandr膩峁兣沘, we have three kings following Bhogin's name. But
since here Chandr膩峁兣沘 is called the second barber, a first one has
to be put before him on a level with Bhogin.
a level with Bhogin.
Evidently this
barber did not sit on the throne and thus remains excluded from
the list of kings. The kings after Bhogin are only three. And
yet there is the curious fact that Vangara, mentioned next to
Dhanadharman who is placed beside Chandr膩m艣a, "is remembered
as the fourth". However, the puzzle remains as long as we
think of "the fourth" in terms of kinghood. Taking our
from the word "second" in connection with Chandr膩峁兣沘, we can
clear the mystery by regarding Vangara as the fourth "Nakhavan."
Then, with Dhanadharman as the understood third, we have a
quartet of "barbers, the last three of whom we may count either
as successive or as contemporary, either as a continuing three-
generationed family of "barbers" after the first or three sons
following a father. If we accept the latter case, the
eldest son Chandr膩峁兣沘 would rule in the seat of Bhogin's govern-
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