The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s3.22

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The first use the latter made of his new position was to invade the Sākiya territory, and slaughter as many of the clan—men, women, and children—as he could catch. Many however escaped¹, and it is, perhaps, to this remnant that we owe the Piprahwa Tope discovered by Mr Peppé. Elsewhere² it has been shown that the reasons given for this invasion were probably not the real ones. But why should the Buddhists have taken pains so elaborately to explain away the fact, unless the fact itself had been indisputable? This is the last we know of Kosala. We hear nothing more of Viḍūḍabha, or of his successors if he had any. When the curtain rises again Kosala has been absorbed into Magadha.