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² The Mudrārākshasa calls him not only *Mauryaputra* (Act II, verse 6 but also *Nandānvaya* (Act IV). Kshemendra and Somadeva refer to him as *Pūrvananda-sūta*, son of the genuine Nanda, as opposed to Yoga-Nanda. The commentator on the *Vishṇu Purāṇa* (IV, 24—Wilson IX, 187) says that Chandragupta was the son of Nanda by a wife named Murā, whence he and his descendants were called Mauryas. Dhuṇḍirāja, the commentator on the *Mudrārākshasa*, informs us on the other hand that Chandragupta was the eldest son of Maurya who was the son of the Nanda king Sarvārthasiddhi by Murā, daughter of a *Vṛishala* (Śūdra?).