All the various Puranic texts have detailed king-lists of several ancient lineages and dynasties. The names and sequence from these sources is largely the same. It may be reckoned that they were all acquired from an original Purana presumably the so-called Ādipurāṇa of Veda Vyāsa. But Ādipurāṇa is not available to us. However, reasonable reconstruction of the original lists is possible from the latter sources.
