Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c29.206

c29.206

Such seems to have remained the condition of India for some time. Ayodhyā rose to prominence again under Amśumant’s second successor Bhagīratha,⁵ and Bhagīratha’s third successor Ambarīṣa Nābhāgi⁶ (pp. 39–41). The Yādavas appear to have been divided up into a number of small kingdoms,⁷ and at the western end of the Satpura hills was the small principality of Niṣadha, the king of which about this time was Nala.⁸ Bharata’s fifth successor Hastin made Hastināpura his capital (see above), and soon after Hastin’s time Tṛṇabindu’s second successor Viśāla built Viśālā or Vaiśālī⁹ as the capital of the kingdom which has been hitherto called the kingdom of Vaiśālī in anticipation.