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¹ This king was contemporary with Khāravela, king of Kalinga. ‘Twice, it appears, had Çātakarṇi proclaimed his suzerainty by the performance of the horse-sacrifice; and on one of these occasions at least, the victory thus celebrated must have been at the expense of Çuṅgas, if we are right in supposing that the appearance of the Andhras of South India in the dynastic lists of the Purāṇas indicates that, at some period, they held the position of suzerains in Northern India’, Cambridge History of India, vol. i, pp. 530-1.