The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.46

v1.c30.46

The next name in the list appears in many disguises in the MSS. as Odruka, Andhraka, Bhadraka, etc. Mr Jayaswal has given good reasons for supposing that the original form from which all these varieties are derived was *Odraka*, and he has shown further that this name is most probably to be restored in the Pabhosā inscr. no. 904, which should therefore be regarded as dated ‘in the tenth year of Odraka.’ If these acute and plausible suggestions may be accepted, we must conclude that the region of Pabhosā—the ancient kingdom of Kauçāmbī, as seems most likely (p. 524)—was included at this period in the sovereignty of the Çuṅgas; but at the same time we must recognise that an error has crept into the text of the Purāṇas, which, as they stand, assign either two or seven years to this king².