Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s6.19
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s6.19
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c12.s6.19
The great Ceylonese chronicle avers that all the kings from Ajātaśatru to Nāga-Dāsaka were parricides.² The citizens drove out the family in anger and raised an *amātya* (official) to the throne.