The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.61

v1.c24.61

That the Pradyota of the Purāṇas and the Pradyota of Ujjain were one and the same person does not admit of question. The fact is implied in the statement of the Matsya Pur.³, and is clear when the Purāṇas are compared with other Sanskrit literature. Udayana, the king of Vatsa, is the central figure in a large cycle of Sanskrit stories of love and adventure; and in these Pradyota, the king of Ujjain, the father of the peerless Vāsavadattā, plays no small part. In some of the stories he appears also as the father of Pālaka and the grandfather of Avantivardhana⁴. Now of the five members of the dynasty in the Purāṇas the first two are Pradyota and Pālaka (*v.l.* Bālaka), and the last is probably Avantivardhana; for the various readings of the MSS., as given by Mr Pargiter (*Kali Age*, p. 19), indicate that this may be the correct form of the name which appears in his text as Nandivardhana.