Bhāratas and Sāgaras: Recurrent Motives in the Sanskrit Genealogies

Száler, Péter (2024) Bhāratas and Sāgaras: Recurrent Motives in the Sanskrit Genealogies. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas. Dev Publishers. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The burning of Sagara’s sons and the fall of the Kauravas are probably the most famous dynastic collapses in Indian mythology. Although Sagara and his sons belonged to the Solar lineage, while the Kauravas belonged to the Lunar lineage of the kṣatriyas, in this article, I have tried to show that there are many similarities between the dynastic crises. These points of connection seem to me to be so deep as to suggest that these stories emerged from a common story matrix and were later crystallised in the legends of the Solar and Lunar lineages.

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