The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.62

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150 Maurya era 165—date of the Hāthigumphā inscription of the thirteenth year of Khāravela or Bhikhurāja, of Kaliṅga. His accession would fall, therefore, in B.C. 163. Bhagwānlāl Indraji calculated the Maurya era from Aśoka's conquest of Kaliṅga, in the ninth year of his reign, but Bühler concludes that it originated with Chandragupta's coronation. Khāravela who, though a Jain by religion, calls himself a worshipper of all sects, is stated in the Hāthigumphā inscription to have been the Cheta dynasty. He became Yuvarāja in his fifteenth year, and king of Kaliṅga in his twenty-fourth. In the second year of his reign he received tribute from the then reigning Andhra king, Śātakarṇi, and in the same year, with the aid of the Kusumba (?) Kshatriyas, conquered Masika (?). In his eighth year Khāravela undertook an expedition against the King of Rājagṛiha, who fled to Mathurā. In his twelfth year he invaded Magadha, advancing as far as the Ganges, apparently subduing the king. His immediate predecessors on the throne of Kaliṅga seem to have been his father Vudharāja and his grandfather Khemarāja. Khāravela married the daughter of Hathisāha or Hathisiṁha, the grandson of Lālaka.—*Actes du VIe Congrès International des Orientalistes*, Sect. Ary., t. iii, 135 ff. Bühler, *Secte der Jaina*, 31, 41. Bühler, *Monatschrift für den Orient*, September 1884, 231. EI. ii, 89.