I had provided earlier Kings List of India, belonging to Ikshvaku Dynasty.It is also called as Solar Dynasty/Suryavamsa..In a series of articles I updated the list based on the Information from Matsya,Vishnu and Brahmanda Purans..
The other Vamsa or Major Dynasty is Chandra Vamsa or Lunar Dynasty, which had its beginning from the sister of Ikshvaku,.Ila married Budha son of Chandra and had Pururavas as a son.Pururavas is the first King of Chandra Vamsa and his child descendants are called Pauravas,Same as Chandra Vamsa.The other Dynasties of India including Yadava have sprung from the Ikshvaku or through Lunar dynasty. As stated earlier, as Ila was the sister of Ikshvaku’Lunar dynasty is related to Ikshvaku.
The Ikshvaku Dynasty came to an end with King Sumitra in in 1634 BC
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.
Last king Sumitra was killed by Mahapadma Nanda in 1634 BCE. Chanakya was contemporary to this Mahapadma Nanda (Dhana Nanda), who placed Mahapadmananda’s protege Chandragupta, son of Mahapadma Nanda by his wife ‘Mura‘ on the throne of his father..
Indian history seen through the prism of western writers,Moghuls and our own brand of self styled liberal, Secularists,consists of only myths and legends.
This mental attitude helped the rulers to ignore and ridicule our History.
Distortions in Indian history
Indian history is just misinformation.
Most of us are not aware of the fact that our kings and poets have documented history. The king’s have documented their reign,wars won,Extent of their kingdom,Taxes levied ,Grants given to people and administration details. These documents are in the form of Epigraphs in temples,Copperplates. The poets have sung in praise of kings where they had listed details about the land,flora and fauna, genealogy of the king and his achievements. Brushing aside the hyperbole about the king ,one can find wealth of contemporary information.
This information is available in Sanskrit, Sanskrit Brahmi,Pali from Buddist and Jain texts and from Regions languages like Tamil, Kannada, Telugu.Tamil has a hoary past and Tamil culture runs parallel to Vedic culture and there is a close intimacy between these two cultures. Each quotes the other and this is a mine of information.
Kalhana had listed the kings of India from just before Mahabharata war. The list can be cross checked with the records one finds in Epigraphs, Copper plates ,Puranas and Ithihasas.
Serial NumberName of the KingYears reignedBefore Loukikabda (3076 B.C.)Before Christ.1-5Names not known212374-1623450-32381Gonanda I50162-1123238-3188
2Damodara I48112-643188-3140
3Yasovati ( wife of 2 and mother of 4)½64-63½3140-3139½
4Gonanada II56½63½-73139½-3083
No.4 king Gonanda II ruled for 56½ years, 1½ years before Mahabharata War and 55 years after the war.
Kings 5 to 39 : According to Kalhana names are not known. But Mulla Ahmed’s history of Kashmir written in the Persian language gives the list of the lost 35 kings of Kashmir from No.5-39 of the list given in Kalhana’s Rajntharangini. Gonanda II (the 4th king in the list of the Kings of Kalhana’s Rajatarangini) was Killed in a battle by Parikshit, king of Hastinapura in 3083 B.C. As Gonanda II left no heir, Parikshit incorporated Kashmir into his empire. He ruled it from Hastinapura for 42 years. At the time of his death, in 3041 B.C., Parikshit gave Kashmir to his second son “Harnadeva”. 23 kings of the Pandava dynasty and twelve other kings ruled for 1331 years from 3083-1752 B.C.
. Parikshit ruled for 42 year from 7 B.L. to 35 A.L. or 3083-3041 B.C. 6. Hernadeva 7. Rama deva 8. Vyasadeva 9. Drunadeva 10. Simhadeva 11. Gopaladeva 12. Vijayananda 13. Sukhadeva 14. Ramananda 15. Sandhiman 16. Marahandeva & Kamandeva. 17. Chandradeva 18. Anandadeva 19. Drupadadeva 20. Harnamdeva 21. Sulkandeva 22. Sinaditya 23. Mangaladitya 24. Khimendra 25. Bhimasena 26. Indrasena 27. Sundarasena 28. Galgendra 29. Baladeva 30. Nalasena 31. Gokarna 32. Prahlada 33. Bambru 34. Pratapaseela 35. Sangrama chandra 36. Larik chandra 37. Biramchamdra 33. Babighana 39. Bhagavanta The above 34 kings from no.6 to no.39 ruled for 1289 years , A.L. 35 to 1324, or B.C 3041 to 1752.
52. Gonanda III Crowned in 1894 After Laukikabda Kala or 1182 B.C. Gonanda I was a poet. Dharma-Asoka was the 48th king of Kashmir, counting from Gonanda I. He belonged to the Gonanda dynasty. Kalhana says that this king freed himself from sins by embracing Buddha’s religion and built the city of Srinagar, with ninety-six lakhs of houses, resplendent with wealth. He appears to have been a poet.( R.T. 1-101 )
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