The lineage of Sri Rama, Surya vansh,Solar Dynasty makes interesting reading for those interested in Researching Sanatana Dharma. As is known Sri Rama belongs to Solar Dynasty ,founded by Ikshvaku who was the son of Manu ,first human being. Manu also had a daughter called Ela who founded the Lemuria Empire of Chandra Vamsa. I shall write an article the importance of this fact to determine the date of Tamils. I had written about Lemuria, home of Tamils being 230 Million years old.
Now in this article let me explore the kings who preceded Sri Rama and their contemporaries.
Puthra kameshti yagnya. Rama was born after performing the yagnya
And even among these kings, let us explore one king at a time.
Mandhata. He was the Seventeenth King in the Lineage of Solar Dynasty. Sri Rama was the Fifty first in that Line.Mandhatha and Sri Rama were separated by eighteen Kings.
Ravana was a contemporary of Mandhata.( The hypothesis that there were more than one Ravana does not stand scrutiny of one checks Ramayana, Mahabharata and Purana)
Now Ravana was killed by Sri Rama .
This means Ravana was living about 3,40,000 Years before Sri Rama and Parashuram was his contemporary.
Average lifespan of Humans was, in Tretha Yuga, 10,000 years. Tretha Yuga lasts for 1,296,000 human years.
So Ravana and Parashuram preceded Sri Rama by about 3,40,000 years.
To the sceptics, it is not improbable for people to have such a long Lifespan and their technology Superior to us. I have sufficient material saved in Pinterest from credible sources to doubt our understanding of our ancient history .
And Historical Anamolies which we can not wish away with.
The information in Puranas and Ithihasas check out when one cross checks geography ,flora and fauna, and references in Regional languages like Tamil and ancient information found around the world.
‘As Mandhata grew old, he was having pride of his strength and desired to entirely conquer Swarga, the heavenly regions ruled by Indra. Indra was perturbed by this and told Mandhata that he had not completely conquered the earth. Indra told Mandhata that the Asura Lavana, the son of Madhu and Ravana, the king of Lanka were not a subject to his rule. As he knows he cannot pardon Indra’s request as his son, he goes to Madhupuri. Reference and citation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandhatri
Lord Rama belonged to Ikshvaku Dynasty which is the same as Surya Vamsa, Solar Dynasty.
Pandavas and Kauravas belonged to Chandra Vamsa,Lunar Dynasty.
When one tries to find out the origin of Man Genealogy, and the first pair , one gets stuck, either with Incest or the origin of one of the pair remaining with no visible parentage.
I seek the indulgence of the readers for my vagueness in the foregoing sentence.
This is to avoid that useless controversy.
Those who can read between the lines would understand.
Now to the point at hand.
Ila with Budha, son of Moon,Chandra.
If there were two dynasties, then who was the first one; how did the second dynasty come into play;how these two are related?
Indian texts are clear on Cosmology and Genealogy, besides pther things.
There are Eighteen Puranas and many Upa Puranas.
Please read my post on list of Indian Texts.
There may be minor variations in details among the Puranas, but all agree on essential major facts.
Thus Genealogy and Cosmology descriptions, explanations do not have discrepancies among the Puranas.
Thus under Genealogy, Puranas describe the dynasties and list the Kings.
It may not be of place to mention that Cosmology and Genealogy are two of the characteristics laid down for a text to be qualified as Purana.
Please read my article on Characteristics of Purana.
The Firs human was Manu, He is called Vaivaswatha Manu for the present Time scale, Kali Yuga, which has a span of 4,32,000 years.
He had one daughter and nine sons. Manu begot ten other children named Vena, Dhrishnu, Narishyan,Nabhaga, Ikshvaku, Karusha, Sharyati, the eighth, a daughter named Ila, Prishadhruthe ninth, and Nabhagarishta, the tenth. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shraddhadeva_Manu#Descendants )
His son Ikshvaku was from the south of the Vindhya mountains, Dravida Desa.
His kingdom was centered around Madagascar.
When a Tsunami struck , Manu mediatated in a plateau near Madagascar.
He left south with his sons for Ayodhya, where he founded the Solar Dynasty, called as Surya Vamsa.
Manu had left his only daughter Ila in the South.
She remained in the South,Dravida Desa.
Her descendants ruled from the south.
This dynasty is the Chandra Vamsa, Lunar Dynasty.
The descendants of Ila and Ikshvaku are first cousins.
In Hindu way of explaining relationships, children of aunt and uncle.
Though both Ila and Ikshvaku belong to the Genealogy of Manu, the Dynasty is called Ikshvaku, Manu’s son.
I shall write as to why.
While the dynasty of Ikashvaku is called Solar, that of Ila is Lunar, Chandra Vamsa.
Chandra Vamsa is named after Chandra, Moon.
Ila was both a man and woman.
‘According to the Ramayana, when Ila approached Shiva for help, Shiva laughed with scorn but the compassionate Parvati reduced the curse and allowed Ila to switch genders every month. However, as a male he would not remember his life as a female and vice versa. While Ilā roamed the forest in her new form with her female attendants, Budha, the god of the planet Mercury and the son of the moon-god Chandra, noticed her. Although he had been practising asceticism, Ilā’s beauty caused him to fall in love with her at first sight. Budha turned Ilā’s attendants into Kimpurushas (hermaphrodite, lit. “is it a man?”)[10][14] and ordered them to run away, promising that they would find mates as Ilā had.
Ilā married Budha and spent an entire month with him and consummated the marriage. However, Ilā woke one morning as Sudyumna and remembered nothing about the past month. Budha told Ila that his retinue had been killed in a rain of stones and convinced Ila to stay with him for a year. During each month she spent as a woman, Ilā had good time with Budha. During each month as a man, Ila turned to pious ways and performed austerities under the guidance of Budha. In the ninth month, Ilā gave birth to Pururavas, who grew to become the first king of the Lunar dynasty. Then, as per the advice of Budha and Ila’s father Kardama, Ila pleased Shiva with a horse sacrifice and Shiva restored Ila’s masculinity permanently.
Another legend from the Vishnu Purana credits Vishnu of restoring Ilā’s manhood as Sudyumma. The Bhagavata Purana et al. texts tell that after Pururavas’s birth, the nine brothers of Ila – by horse sacrifice – or the sage Vasistha – the family priest of Ila – pleased Shiva to compel him to give the boon of alternate month manhood to Ila, turning him into a Kimpurusha.The Linga Purana and the Mahabharata record the birth of Pururavas, but do not narrate the end of Ila’s alternating gender condition. In fact, the Mahabharata describes Ilā to be the mother as well as the father of Pururavas.According to another account found in the Vayu Purana and the Brahmanda Purana, Ilā was born female, married Budha, then was transformed into a male called Sudyumna. Sudyumna was then cursed by Parvati and transformed once again into a female, but became a man once again through Shiva’s boon.
In almost all versions of the tale, Ila wants to live as a man, but in the Skanda Purana, Ila desires to be a woman. The king Ela (Ila) entered Parvati’s grove at Sahya mountain and became the woman Ilā. Ilā wished to remain a woman and serve Parvati (Gauri) and Ganga, the goddess of the Ganges river. However, the goddesses dissuaded him. Ilā bathed in a sacred pool and returned as Ela, bearded and deep-voiced.’
The Bhagavata Purana, the Devi-Bhagavata Purana and the Linga Purana declare that Ila ascended to heaven with both male and female anatomy.[18] Ila is considered the chief progenitor of the Lunar Dynasty through Pururavas and of the Solar Dynasty through his brother Iksavaku and sons Utkala, Gaya, and Vinatashva.[9][22] The marriage of Ilā, a descendant of the Sun, and Budha, the son of the Moon, is the first union of the solar and lunar races recorded in the scriptures.[11]
When one reads History one has to take facts as they are, bearing in mind the geographical differences between then and now, the conditions existing during the period of study.
Unfortunately in India both seem to be at a premium.
People while reading Indian history were and still are dependent on foreign sources with agenda.
Most of the history taught in India is dis/misinformation by the rulers for over five hundred years.
This includes the Mughals and the British.
The Mughals had to keep their religion and empire intact and hence taught what was in their interests.
The Britishers had the same approach.
They went two steps further.
They first divided people based on Religion.
And introduced English. And they had psudeo researchers like Max Mueller to infiltrate Hinduism to make Indians lose respect for their texts.
Some of these Missionaries outwardly Embraced Hinduism and propagated Christianity.
People like Veeramamunivar in Tamil.
The nett result is Indians do not refer Indian texts and even if they do, they do so through English!
So Indian history looks to be confused and looks like fables.
But if one were to study Indian texts diligently with the approach that there was no south, north divide, nor was a linguistic chavunism.
And the land mass of Ancient times was different.
With this, let us look at Indian history.
The first major world war in indiay, called ten Kings war, Dadarjaniya war between two warring groups.
Essentially there were two major tribes or groups in India.
IT is worth remembering that the first Human being was Manuywho belonged to the southern hemisphere, called Dravida டிச.
The term Man is from Manu.
Manu had sons and a daughter.
When a Tsunami struck South, he, along with his son left for Ayodhya.
His son Ikshvaku founded the Surya Vamsa, Solar dynasty.
His daughter, Ila, who was left behind in South, here south meaning from the Saraswathi valley to the present south india, running through the coast of Arabian sea, which was not called thus then.
She married Chandra and had a son Budha.
Then came Puru.
This is the Lunar Dynasty, Chandra Vamsa.
All dynasties of India can be traced back to these two dynasties including the Tamil Kings Chera, Chola and Pandyas.
Please read my articles on Solar, Lunar and Tamil dynasties.
There were sub dynasties like Yadu, Thurvasa.
Some of these migrated outside Bharata kanda and settled around the world.
Hence we find remains of Hinduism everywhere in the world.
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India’s nameBharator Bharat-Varsh is named after a descendant of the Puru dynasty KingBharat.
There were two main Vedic cultures in ancient India. The first was a northern kingdom centered on the Sarasvati-Drishadvati river region dominated by the Purus and the Ikshvakus. The second was a southern culture along the coast of the Arabian Sea and into the Vindhya Mountains, dominated by the Turvashas and Yadus and extending into groups yet further south. These northern and southern groups vied for supremacy and influenced each other in various ways as the Vedas and Puranas indicate. The northern or Bharata culture ultimately prevailed, making India the land of Bharata or Bharatavarsha and its main ancient literary record the Vedas, though militarily the Yadus remained strong throughout history….. ‘
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According to Puranic legend theChandravanshilineage is: Brahma->Atri->Chandra->Budha(married toManu’s daughterIla) ->Pururava-> Ayu ->Nahusha->Yayati-> Puru andYadu
King Yayati’s elder son Yadu had officially lost the title to govern by his father’s command since he had refused to exchange his youth with his father. Thereby, he could not have carried on the same dynasty, called Somvanshi. Consequently, the generations of King Puru, Paurav or Puruvanshi were the only one to be known as Somvansa.
Yayati divided up his kingdom into five quarters (VP IV.10.1708). To Turvasha he gave the southeast (Bay of Bengal); to Druhya the westGandhara; toYaduthe south (By Arabian sea); to Anu the northPunjab; and to Puru the center (Sarasvatiregion) as the supreme king of Earth’
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Luna dynasty(also known asSomavansha,Chandravanshaand asAilas) is one of the four principal houses of theKshatriyavarna, or warrior–ruling caste.This legendary dynasty was descended from the moon (SomaorChandra), ,
According to theMahabharata, the dynasty’s progenitorIlaruled fromPrayag, while his son Shashabindu ruled in the country of Bahli.
The great sageVishvamitrathe son of king Gadhi of Kanyakubja dynasty was a descendant of Amavasu, the son ofPururavaof Chandravansha clan.
Ila’s descendants, the Ailas (also known asChandravansha), were a dynasty of kings of ancient India.Pururavas, the son ofBudhawas the founder of this dynasty.
Most History text books in India begin with Maurya Dynasty and Bimbisara,as if there were no history in india before that period,dismissing them as Legends and hyperbole in the imagination of Poets.
The History conveniently begins prior to Alexander’s invasion of India.
Alexander’s invasion of India is a myth as revealed by Greek historians.
But the real history of India,as revealed by the Vedas,Puranas,Ramayana,Mahabharatha,Sanskrit and Tamil literature ,validated by Archeology,foreign literature,especially Greek,Etymological similarities between world languages and Sanskrit and Tamil,Astronomical /Carbon/Infrared dating of artifacts recovered in India and abroad confirm what the Indian texts say.
To understand Indian history,one has to,
Approach Indian texts with open mind,
Verify them with the tools I have mentioned,
Understand that there was no Aryan Invasion,
Sanatana Dharma coexisted with the Tamil culture,which also followedcSanatana Dharma,
There was no North South Divide save the wars between the usual wars between kings,
That the history of India extends to thousands of years,
That the Concept of Time in India is Cyclic and not linear,
There were two major dynasties,Solar and Lunar,Suryavamsa and Chandravamsa and there were many sub dynasties,
The Solar dynasty ,though its ancestor Manu was a Dravidian King,was established in North India,while thexLunar dynasty also flourised in south India,through Ila,Daughter of Manu.
The South Indian kings trace their ancestry to. Solar ,Ikshvaku Dynasty and also to Lunar dynasty,Chandra vamsa.
The Ikshvahu dynasty frm Treta Yuga ,from million years ago extended upto Dwapara yuga and ended with King Sumitra who was defeated and driven away from Ayodhya.
Then we find continum from that period from Magadha dynasty,which belongs to Lunar Dynasty,Chandravamsa from Bruhatradha.
Lunar dynasty,Chandra vamsa.
‘Barhadradha Dynasty Before the Mahabharata War of 3138 B.C.
1. Barhardradha I :-
According to Mahabharata, Brihadradha-I, the founder of Barhadradha Dynasty was the eldest son of Uparichara Vasu , the seventh in the descent from the Great Kuru, son of Samvarna, a descendant of the Lunar Dynasty (Chandravamsajah) of kings. He founded the kingdom of Magadha probably about 3709 B.C. or 571 years before the Great war of Mahabharata at Kurukshetra between the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
This battle according to Mahabharata, the important Puranas, and all other ancient Hindu, Bauddha and Jaina authorities and traditions, took place. 36 years before the commencement of the Kaliyuga—the present Yuga. Kali Yuga began immediately after the departure of Sri Krishna, son of Vasudeva by Devaki, from this world on the 20th February, 3102 B. C., in the year Pramadhin of the Southern School of Hindu astronomers. (Vide Indian Eras By this author, Kota Venkata Chelam)
Brihadradha married the two beautiful twin daughters of the king of Kasi; and by the blessing of a Rishi, he obtained a most powerful son by name Jarasandha. The king, after installing his mighty son Jarasandha on the throne of Magadha retired into a forest and led an ascetic life. In this context the Mahabharata gave the next prominent dynasty of Jarasandha, leaving some generations of kings in the interval between Brihadradha I and Jarasandha (or Brihadradha II). – (Vide_Mahabharata, Sabha Parva. Adhyayas 14 to 19).
N.B:- The Matsya Purana enumerates all the names of kings between Brihadradha-I and Jarasandha or Brihadradha-II Jarasandha, son of Bhuvana was the 15 th in descent from Kuru and the tenth from Brihadradha-I, the founder of the Magadha Dynasty of kings. The following table shows the order of descent according to Matsya Purana. (Chapter 59):-
1. Samvarna
2. Kuru (The founder of the Kaurava Dynasty who removed his capital from Prayaga to Kurukshetra.)
3. Sudhanvan, Parikshit, Prajana, Jaghnu or Johnu or Yaju
4. Suhotra.
5. Chyavana
6. Krimi (or Kriti)
7. Chaidya or Uparicharavasu or Pratipa
8. (1) Brihadradha-I thefounder of the Magadha Dynasty.(3709 B.C.)
‘The Hindu Mahabharata calls Brihadratha the first ruler of Magadha. King Bimbisara of the Haryanka dynasty led an active and expansive policy, conquering Anga in what is now West Bengal.
The death of King Bimbisara was at the hands of his son, Prince Ajatashatru. King Pasenadi, king of neighbouring Kosala and brother-in-law of King Bimbisara, promptly retook the gift of the Kashi province.
Accounts differ slightly as to the cause of King Ajatashatru’s war with the Licchavi, an area north of the river Ganges. It appears that Ajatashatru sent a minister to the area who for three years worked to undermine the unity of the Licchavis. To launch his attack across the Ganges River, Ajatashatru built a fort at the town of Pataliputra. Torn by disagreements the Licchavis fought with Ajatashatru. It took fifteen years for Ajatashatru to defeat them. Jain texts tell how Ajatashatru used two new weapons: a catapult, and a covered chariot with swinging mace that has been compared to a modern tank. Pataliputra began to grow as a center of commerce and became the capital of Magadha after Ajatashatru’s death.’
Haryanka dynasty (c. 600 – 413 BCE)Edit
Bhattiya or
Mahanandin (367–345 BCE)
Nanda Dynasty (345–321 BCE)Edit
Mahapadma Nanda Ugrasena (from 345 BCE), illegitimate son of Mahanandin, founded the Nanda Empire after inheriting Mahanandin’s empire
My view that Indian Puranas,Ithihasas,Ramayana,Mahabharatha,Literary works of Kalidasa,Kalhana in Sanskrit and the Tamil Classics of the Sangam Era and later works including the works of Azhwars,the worshipers of Vishnu and Nayanmars,worshipers of Shiva are recorded History of India.
We tend to treat the Puranas and Ithihasas as fiction and figment of imagination and the litereary works as mere hyperbole.
Nothing can be farther from Truth.
Puranas and Ithihasas ,no doubt talk of spirituality but they are also facts.
Similarly the Sanskrit and Tamil literature might contain exquisitely composed allegories,descriptive hyperboles of Kings’achievements and Nature,they also contain facts,geographical and historical.
This is evidenced by a careful reading of these Texts,starting from the Vedas through Ramayana,Mahabharatha,Puranas and Tamil Sangam Classics .
The facts mentioned can be verified against Geological,Historical facts as found in foreign literature and physical verification of Geographical descriptions.
This blog has details of such verified facts and they can be accessed undr Hinduism,Tamils Category.
I have been concentrating on the texts mentioned above save Sanskrit literature.
Now I begin by exploring the Raghuvamsa by Kalidasa,which details the Dynasty of Raghu of Ikshvaku Dynasty.
Lord Rama,who is from Ikshvaku Dynasty,is of such great stature that one does not bither about Rama’s illustrious ancestors,say Dillepa and Raghu.
Raghu was so powerful that Kalidasa named his epic as Raghuvamsa,the Raghu Dynasty.
Kalidasa records that Raghu invaded Cetral Asia and middle east and conquered them
He defeated the Central Asians,the Chinese, the ancestors of the Arabs and White Huns.
Please read my article on Huns.
‘The warrior Raghu leads a military expedition toTransoxiana. He defeats and subjugates local people along the way (presumably on his march through Central Asia) until he reaches theVankshu, as the ancient Indians called theOxusRiver. There, Raghu’s army battles theHepthalites, or White Huns, whom the Indians calledHunasandMlecchas(barbarians). The Hepthalites are defeated, and theRaghuvamshaboasts of “The exploits of Raghu, whose valor expressed itself amongst the husbands of the Huna women, became manifest in the scarlet colour of their cheeks.”
After crossing the Oxus, Raghu and his army encountered the Kambojas, an ancient Indo-Scythian people often mentioned in Indian texts. The Kambojas submitted to Raghu and offered him gifts and treasures. Evidently, the Kambojas dwelt in the vicinity of the Pamirs. Kalidasa describes the preponderance of walnut trees in the Oxus country, this particular region is still known for the cultivation of walnuts…..
Transoxiana (also spelled Transoxania), known in Arabic sources as Mā warāʼ al-Nahr(Arabic: ما وراء النهر Arabic pronunciation: [ˈmaː waˈraːʔ anˈnahr] – ‘what [is] beyond the [Oxus] river’) and in Persian as Farārūd (Persian: فرارود, Persian pronunciation: [fæɾɒːɾuːd]—’beyond the [Amudarya] river’), is the ancient name used for the portion of Central Asiacorresponding approximately with modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, southern Kyrgyzstan, and southwest Kazakhstan. Geographically, it is the region between the Amu Darya (Ancient Greek: ΏξοςỐxos) and Syr Darya rivers.[1] The area had been known to the Romans as Transoxania (Land beyond the Oxus), to the Arabs as Mawarannahr (Land Beyond the River), and to the Iranians as Turan, a term used in the Persian national epic Shahnameh…
Hephthalites (or Ephthalites) was the Latinisedexonym for a people of Central Asia who were militarily important circa 450-560. They were based in Bactria and expanded east to the Tarim Basin, west to Sogdia and south through Afghanistan to northern India. They were a tribal confederation and included both nomadic and urban, settled communities…
Chinese sources link the Central Asian tribes comprising the Hunas to both the Xiongnu of north east Asia and the Huns who later invaded and settled in Europe.Similarly, Gerald Larson suggests that the Hunas were a Turkic–Mongolian grouping from Central Asia. The works of Ptolemy (2nd century) are among the first European texts to mention the Huns, followed by the texts by Marcellinus and Priscus. They too suggest that the Huns were an inner Asian people’
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