Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s8.1
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s8.1
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c12.s8.1
The Saiśunāga dynasty was supplanted by the line of Nanda.¹ With the new family we reach a stage of East Indian history when the indubitable evidence of inscriptions becomes available to supplement the information gleaned from traditional literary sources. The famous Hāthigumphā record of Khāravela, of the second or first century B.C., twice mentions Naṁda-rāja in connection with Kaliṅga.