Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c13.16

c13.16

[31] followed by the Andhrabhṛityas But here, there is a statement in the Vâyu and the Mâtsya, the like of which does not occur in the account of the other dynasties The founder of the Andhrabhṛityas, Sindhuka, according to the first Purâṇa, and Śiśuka, according to the other, is said to have uprooted not only the Kâṇvas, but "whatever was left of the power of the Śuṅgas"¹⁰ And the Kâṇvas are pointedly spoken of as Śuṅgabhṛityas or "servants of the Śuṅgas ¹¹ It, therefore, appears likely that when the princes of the Śuṅga family became weak, the Kâṇvas usurped the whole power and ruled like the Peshwas in modern times, not uprooting the dynasty of their masters but reducing them to the character of nominal sovereigns, and this supposition is strengthened by the fact that like the Peshwas