Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c12.s8.44

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¹ Some Mss. read *dvirashṭabhiḥ* in place of *dvijarshabhaḥ*. Dr. Jayaswal (*Ind. Ant.*, 1914, 124) proposed to emend it to *Virāshṭrābhiḥ*. Virāshṭrās he took to mean the Āraṭṭas and added that Kauṭilya was helped by the Āraṭṭas "the band of robbers" of Justin. *Cf.* Cunningham, *Bhilsa Topes*, pp. 88, 89. Pargiter, however, suggests, (*Dynasties of the Kali Age*, pp. 26, 85) that *dvijarshabhaḥ* (the best among the twice-born, *i.e.*, Brāhmaṇas) may be the correct reading instead of "*dvirashṭabhiḥ*."