Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s2.71
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s2.71
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² Whitehead (*Num. Chron.*, 1943, pp. 60-72) rejects the identification of Sophytes with Saubhūti. He thinks that "Saubhūti is a philologist's creation. There is no historical evidence that Saubhūti existed" (p. 63). Subhūti (from which Saubhūti is apparently derived) is a fairly common name in Indian literature. (*The Questions of King Milinda*, Part II, SBE. XXXVI, pp. 315, 323; Geiger, the *Mahāvaṁsa*., tr., 151n, 275). It is by no means improbable that a Hindu Rajah should strike a piece bearing a Hellenized form of his name, as the Hinduised Scythian rulers did in later ages.