The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.109

v1.c24.109

The Purāṇas, however, state or imply that ten Çuṅga kings, reigning for 112 years, were succeeded by four Kaṇvas, who reigned for 45 years, and that then the first of the Andhras, Simuka, having wrested the kingdom from the last of the Kaṇvas, Suçarman, became the founder of a dynasty of thirty kings who ruled over Magadha during a period of 460 years. This is manifestly incorrect. It is evident that by piecing together three separate lists some editor has constructed an entirely false chronology and has perverted history. The Andhras had probably no connexion with Magadha. Their only possible claim to a place in its records must have been founded on a conquest which transferred to them the suzerainty previously held by Magadha¹.