Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c16.s1.16

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The **Dominions of Pushyamitra** extended to the river Narmadā, and included the cities of Pāṭaliputra, Ayodhyā, Vidiśā, and, if the author of the *Divyāvadāna* and Tāranātha are to be believed, Jālandhara and Śākala.² It appears from the *Divyāvadāna*,³ that the Emperor himself continued to reside in Pāṭaliputra. The *Mālavikāgnimitram* tells us that Vidiśā (Besnagar in Eastern Mālwa) was governed by Prince Agnimitra, probably as his father's viceroy (*Goptṛi*).⁴ Another viceroy, also a relation of the emperor, may have governed Kosala.⁵ Agnimitra's queen had a brother of inferior caste, named Vīrasena. He was placed in command of a frontier fortress on the banks of the Narmadā (*Atthi devīe vaṇṇāvaro* *bhādā Viraseṇo nāma, so bhaṭṭiṇā antav* (p) *āladugge Nammadātīre* ¹ *ṭhāvido)*.