INDUVANSA, also known as the Lunar race; a race who, in pre-historic times, were dominant in Northern India. In the Raj Tarringini and Rajaoli, the Induvansa family are shown to be descendants of Pandu, through his eldest son Yudishthra. These works, celebrated in Rajwara as collections of genealogies and historical facts, were compiled by the pandits Vedyadhra and Ragonath, under the eye of the most learned prince of his period, Siwai Jai Singh of Amber, and give the various dynasties which ruled at Indraprastha, from Yudishthra to Vikramaditya. The Tarringini commences with Adinath, or Reshabdeva, being the Jain theogony. Rapidly noticing the leading princes of the dynasties discussed, they pass to the birth of the kings Dhrita Rashtra and Pandu, and their offspring, detailing the causes of their civil strife, to that conflict termed the Mahabharata or great war. On the death of Pandu, Duryodhana, nephew. of Pandu (son of Dhrita Rashtra, who from blindness could not inherit), asserted their illegitimacy before the assembled kin at Hastina pun With the aid, however, of the priesthood, and the blind Dhrita Rashtra, his nephew Yudishthra, elder son of Pandu, was invested by\him with the seal of royalty, in the capital of Hastinapur, But Duryodhana's plots against the Pandu. were so
numerous, that the five brothers determined to leave for a while their ancestral abodes on the Ganges. They sought shelter in countries about the Indus, and were first protected by Drupdeva, king of Panchalica, at whose capital, Kampilna-. gara, the surrounding princes had arrived as suitors for the hand of his daughter Drupdevi. But the skill of Arjuna in archery obtained him the fair, who `threw round his neck the burmala or garland of marriage.' The disappointed princes indulged their resentment against the exile ; but from Arjuna's bow they suffered the fate of Penelope's suitors, and the ,Pandu brought home his bride, who became the wife in common of the five brothers ; manners decisively Scythic. This marriage is glossed over, admitting the polyan dry, but, in ignorance of its being a national custom, childish reasons are interpolated. In the early annals of the same race, predecessors of the Jeysulmir family, the younger son is made to succeed; also a Scythic or Tartar custom.—Tod's Rajasthan, i. pp. 47, 48.