Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s8.12

c12.s8.12

For a detailed account of the dynasty we have to rely on Indian tradition. Indian writers seem to be mainly interested in the Nanda age partly as marking an epoch in a social upsurge and the evolution of imperial unity, and partly as accessory to the life-sketch of Jaina patriarchs and to the *Chandragupta-kathā* of which we have fragments in the *Milindapañho*, *Mahāvaṁsa*, the Purāṇic chronicles, the *Bṛihat-Kathā* and its later versions together with the *Mudrā-rākshasa* and the *Arthaśāstra* compendiums.