“There is nothing in them, as far as I am aware, really inconsistent with the most ancient book we possess, namely, the Rigveda, and they throw much light thereon, and on all problems concerning ancient India.”
ER
“There is nothing in them, as far as I am aware, really inconsistent with the most ancient book we possess, namely, the Rigveda, and they throw much light thereon, and on all problems concerning ancient India.”
“If the Puranic genealogies from the time of the Buddha onward are almost faultless, the presumption naturally is that the earlier genealogies too are not mere figments of the imagination.”
Epic-Puranic royal genealogies
“It is absurd to suppose that the elaborate royal genealogies were all merely figments of imagination or a tissue of falsehoods.”
Epic-Puranic royal genealogies