Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s1.1

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c12.s1.1

The most remarkable feature of the age that commenced with the coronation of Bimbisāra c. 545—44 B.C.,² and ended with the retirement of Alexander from India and the accession of Chandra Gupta Maurya (324 B. C.), is the rise of a New Monarchy in the Eastern part of the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent which is already heralded by a *Brāhmaṇa* passage cited above³:

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