Indian Epigraphy c15.s2.t1.10

c15.s2.t1.10

There are other discrepancies in the tradition besides the above. There is a Puranic saying, that 1015, or 1050, or 1115, or 1500 years intervened between the birth of Prikṣit (an event that took place shortly after the Bhārata war) and the accession of Mahāpadma Nanda (who ruled some decades before Alexander’s invasion, i.e. about 400 B.C.).³ This would make the difference between the Bhārata war and the beginning of Nanda rule between ten and fifteen centuries. On the shaky basis of the dynastic lists in the Purāṇas, Pargiter placed the Bhārata war about 950 B.C.⁴