The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.55

v1.c24.55

Brihadratha himself and nine of his successors are supposed to have reigned before the Kali Age. It is recorded that, when Sahadeva, the last of these, was slain in the great war, Somādhi, his heir, became king in Girivraja, ‘the fortress on the hill,’ at the foot of which the old capital of Magadha, Rājagṛiha, grew up. The site is marked by the ruined town of Rājgīr in the Patna District. In the reign of Senājit, Somādhi’s sixth successor, most of the Purāṇas claim to have been recited. No other event is connected with the twenty-one successors of Sahadeva.