The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c24.76

v1.c24.76

The ten Çiçunāga kings are expressly called Kshatriyas by the Purāṇas, but the last of these, Mahānandin, became, through his marriage with a Çūdra woman, the founder of a Çūdra dynasty which endured for two generations—Mahāpadma and his eight sons. One of the latter, usually supposed to be named Dhanananda, was on the throne in 326 B.C., when Alexander the Great was obliged by the unwillingness of his army to abandon his scheme of attacking the災害 Prasioi, or ‘eastern nations,’ then united under the suzerainty of Magadha. Within a few years of Alexander’s retirement from India, this suzerainty passed from the Nandas to the Mauryas, probably c. 321 B.C.