Mewar: Kanaksen
Mewar: Kanaksen
At least ten genealogical hsts, derived from the most opposite sources, agree in making Kanaksen the founder of this dynasty ; and assign his emigxation from the most northern of the provinces of India to the peninsula of Saurashtra in S. 201, or A.D. 145. We shall, therefore, make this the point of outset ; though it may be premised that Jai Singh, the royal historian and astronomer of Amber, connects the line with Sumitra (the fifty-sixth descendant from the deified Rama), who appears to have been the contemporary of Vikramaditya, a.c. 56.
The country of which Ayodhya (now Oudh) was the capital, and Rama monarch, is termed, in the geographical writings of the Hindus, Kosala ; doubtless from the mother of Rama, whose 1 Tiiese inscriptions will be described in the Personal Narrative. name was Kausalya. The first royal emigrant from the north is styled, in the Rana's archives, Kosala-putra, ' son of Kosala.'
