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Sorry to be saying this, but most of this article is unsubstantiated, weak, subjective, and sounds far too stronger than the quality of the references would permit. In particular, it is written as if it provides evidence for some people to trace their lineage back to the second millennium BCE...!
Why is it that there have been practically no archaeological evidence for such an ancient empire within Mt. Eli (which is a limited geographical area)?
Also, most of the puranas (including Mushikapurana) do not exhibit the kind of rigor to make them the sole reference for a text like this. Even the etymology of 'Ezhi' = 'Eli' = mouse = Mushika does *not* parse and requires a leap of faith.
Get real, folks. This article, IMHO, requires an objective rewrite.
I wish the different articles like this, Mooshika and Chirakkal would all be clubbed together as one. Could anybody do that as they all pertain to the same family?
My Maternal Grandmother is related by blood to the Mushika/Kolathiri/Chirakkal Royal Family, two generations before her, her father being the son of one of the younger princesses after which her lineage branched out. Apart from the external link in the articles from the Organiser magazine, I came across another article in The Hindu about the family located at http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/19/stories/2006021910820300.htm. Also, I think the article on the famous Hathigumpha insciption at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathigumpha_inscription, about the Cheras, Pandyas, Cholas and Velirs (which would have been the Mushika's former name) and hinting at the possibility of all four dynasties dating back to almost 1800 B.C.E. is pertinent to this article. It seems not many know this family by its more ancient name and mos know it by the name of Chirakkal which has a separate article here.Anup Ramakrishnan22:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot18:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have just added archive links to 4 external links on Mushika Kingdom. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
@Animech.79: oocities.org is not a reliable source. Neither is the blog. As noted in my edit messages, please read WP:RS for what constitutes a reliable source. The blog link that you've added provides a list of references at the bottom that you can read and possibly use in this article. Try doing that if you'd like to improve this article. Thanks.—Cpt.a.haddock (talk) (please ping when replying) 14:08, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Mushika dynasty's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "askh":
From Kingdom of Cochin: A Survey of Kerala History, A. Sreedhara Menon, DC Books, Kottayam (2007)
From Chaliyam: Sreedhara Menon, A. (January 2007). Kerala Charitram (2007 ed.). Kottayam: DC Books. ISBN9788126415885.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡05:28, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
