Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty

Kingdoms from the Vedic Parikṣit lineage, the sixteen Mahājanapadas, Magadha, Nandas, Mauryas, Śuṅgas, Scythians, Kuṣāṇas, Sātavāhanas, Guptas; reconstructed from Vedic, epic, Buddhist texts and inscriptions.

Language

English

Author

Hemchandra Raychaudhuri

Extent

4,186 passages, 205,950 words

Text

complete digital text

Source

archive.org · 6th ed., Calcutta University 1953; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Hemchandra Raychaudhuri †1957); published before 1931:…

Contents

• c1 Front matter — 11 parts
• c2 Preface to the Sixth Edition — 4 parts
• c3 Preface to the Fifth Edition — 3 parts
• c4 Preface to the Fourth Edition — 5 parts
• c5 Preface to the Third Edition — 2 parts
• c6 Extracts from the Preface to the Second Edition — 6 parts
• c7 Preface to the First Edition — 5 parts
• c8 Contents — 42 parts
• c9 Abbreviations — 17 parts
• c10 Part II: From the Coronation of Bimbisāra to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty — 1 part
• c11 Chapter I. Introduction — 2 parts
• c12 Chapter II. The Rise of Magadha — 10 parts
• c13 Chapter III. The Persian and Macedonian Invasions — 2 parts
• c14 Chapter IV. The Maurya Empire: The Era of Digvijaya — 3 parts
• c15 Chapter V. The Maurya Empire: The Era of Dhammavijaya and Decline — 2 parts
• c16 Chapter VI. The Baimbika-Śuṅga Empire and the Bactrian Greeks — 3 parts
• c17 Chapter VII. The Fall of the Magadhan and Indo-Greek Powers — 3 parts
• c18 Chapter VIII. Scythian Rule in Northern India — 4 parts
• c19 Chapter IX. Scythian Rule in Southern and Western India — 4 parts
• c20 Chapter X. The Gupta Empire: The Rise of the Gupta Power — 5 parts
• c21 Chapter XI. The Gupta Empire (continued): The Age of the Vikramādityas — 4 parts
• c22 Chapter XII. The Gupta Empire (continued): The Later Guptas — 7 parts
• c23 Appendix A. The Results of Aśoka's Propaganda in Western Asia — 25 parts
• c24 Appendix B. A Note on the Chronological Relation of Kanishka and Rudradāman I — 27 parts
• c25 Appendix C. A Note on the Later Guptas — 16 parts
• c26 Appendix D. The Decline of the Early Gupta Empire — 51 parts
• c27 Appendix E. Kingdoms, Peoples and Dynasties of Trans-Vindhyan India Chronologically Arranged — 23 parts
• c28 Bibliographical Index — 136 parts
• c29 General Index — 65 parts
• c30 Some Additions and Corrections — 80 parts