The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.113

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¹ Mr Jayaswal holds that the king of Rājagṛiha was also the king of Magadha, whose name he reads in the inscription as Bahasatimitra, and whom he identifies with Pushyamitra. Apart from the proposed reading of the name, which cannot be verified from the reproduction of the inscription in Plate I of the *Jour. Bihar and Orissa Research Soc.* 1918, the identification of the Bahasatimitra of the Pabhosā inscription and the coins with Pushyamitra appears not to be possible, if Mr Jayaswal is correct in assigning the Pabhosā inscription (no. 904) to the tenth year of Odraka (p. 521). According to the Purāṇas there was an interval of twenty-five years between the reigns of Pushyamitra and Odraka (p. 518); and Āshāḍhasena, the donor of the Pabhosā cave, was the maternal uncle of king Bahasatimitra.