Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c15.s2.15

c15.s2.15

Kuṇāla’s son was Bandhupālita according to the *Vāyū Purāṇa*, Saṁpadî (Samprati) according to the *Divyāvadāna* and the *Pāṭaliputrakalpa* of Jinaprabhasuri,¹ and Vigataśoka according to Tāranātha.² Either these princes were identical or they were brothers. If the latter view be correct then Bandhupālita may have been identical with **Daśaratha** whose reality is established by the brief dedicatory inscriptions on the walls of cavedwellings at the Nāgārjuni Hills which he bestowed upon the *Ājīvikas*. Daśaratha, who receives the epithet “*devānaṁpiya*” in the inscriptions, was a grandson of Aśoka according to the *Matsya* and *Vishṇu Purāṇas*, and the predecessor of Samprati (variant Saṅgata) according to the same authorities.