The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.21

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513 Bimbisāra, Śreṇya or Śreṇika, king of Magadha, son of Bhaṭṭiya and friend of Buddha, who was his senior by five years. He was murdered after a reign of fifty-two years by his son Ajātaśatru (Mahāvaṃśa). The Dulva states that Bimbisāra conquered Brahmadatta, king of Aṅga, by whom his father had been subdued, and took his capital Champā, living there until Bhaṭṭiya's death, when he moved to Rājagṛiha. The *Vāyu* and *Matsya Purāṇas*—in the latter of which he is called Bindusena or Vindhyasena—assign Bimbisāra a reign of twenty-eight years, and, with the other Purāṇas, call his predecessor Kṣetrajña or Kṣatraujas, and represent him as belonging to the Śaiśunāga dynasty. Buddhist authorities, according to whom the Śaiśunāga dynasty succeeded that of Ajātaśatru, call him a Vaideha.—LIA. i, 859; ii, 69. WVP. iv, 180. MV., chap. ii.