Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s7.2

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¹ Pargiter (AIHT, pp. 286-7) reads the *Matsya Purāṇa* as assigning the Śiśunāgas 163 years, and further reduces the number to 145 allowing an average of about 14½ years for each reign. He places the beginning of the Śiśunāgas (among whom he includes the Bimbisārids) in B.C. 567 and rejects (287n) the traditional figures for the reigns of Bimbisāra and his son. *Cf.* also Bhandarkar, *Carm. Lec.*, 1918, p. 68. 'A period of 363 years for ten consecutive reigns' *i.e.*, 36. 3 years for each 'is quite preposterous.'