COND PERIOD.

The kingdom of the Puru, and the Bharata kings. Royal residence, province
of the Sarasvati. Epos, the Ramayana.

A. _Period from Puru to Dushyanta_.

Conquests from the Sarasvati on the north, and to Kalinga (Bengal) on the
south. Conquerors: Tansu, Ilina, Bharata, Suhotra (all Vedic names).

B. _Period of destruction through the Pan_k_alas._--A_g_ami_dh_a (Suhotra's
son, according to the unfalsified tradition) is the human _Rama_, the
instrument of destruction.

(5.) Question. Why is he called in Lassen, i. 590, the son of Rikshu?
(This is another thousand years.)

_R_iksha is called in M. Bh. (Lassen, xxiii. note 17) son of A_g_ami_dh_a,
and in another place, _wife_ of A_g_ami_dh_a, or both times _wife_!

THIRD PERIOD.

The Kurus; the Pan_k_alas; the Pa_nd_avas. Seats in Middle Hindostan.
Advance to the Vindhya (Epos, the Mahabharata of the third period, as the
Ramaya_n_a of the second).

A. Kingdoms of the Kurus.

B. Kingdom of the Pa_nk_alas. Contemporary lists; but the Pan_k_alas
outlast the Kurus. Both are followed by--

C. Kingdom of the Pa_nd_avas.

Ad. A. From Kuru to Devapi who retires (that is, is driven away),
_S_antanu, Bahlika, the Bactrian (?), there are eleven reigns. Then the
three generations to Duryodhana and Ar_g_una.

Parikshit represents the beginning of the Interregnum.

The list in the Vish_n_u-pura_n_a of twenty-nine kings, from Parikshit to
Kshemaka, with whom the race becomes extinct in the Kali age, does not
concern us.

They are the lines of the pretenders, who did not again acquire the
throne. The oldest list is probably only of six reigns; for the son of
_S_atanika, the third V. P. king of this list, is also called Udayana
(Lassen, xxvi. note 23), and the same is the name of the twenty-fifth
king, the son of _S_atanika II. Therefore B_r_ihadratha, Vasudana, and
Sudasa (21, 22, 23) are likewise the last of a Parikshit line. But they do
not count chronologically.

FOURTH PERIOD.

The kingdom of Magadha. Chronological clews for Megasthenes. The first
part of the Magadha list preserved to us (Lassen, xxxi.) from Kuru to
Sahadeva is an unchronological list of collateral lines of the third
period, therefore of no value for the computation of time. The Kali list
of Magadha begins with Somapi to Ripun_g_aya, 20 kings. The numbers are
cooked in so stupid a way that they neither agree with each other nor are
possible. One can only find the right number from lower