Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c16.s1.21

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¹ Act I. Some manuscripts mention Mandākinī as the name of the river (cf. *IHQ*., 1925, 214). A stream called Mandākinī lies 5 miles south of the Tāptī (*Ind. Ant.*, 1902, 254). Another Mandākinī flowed near Chitrakūṭa (*Rām.* 92. 10-11). Lüders' Inscriptions, Nos. 687-688, seem to suggest that Bharhut (in Baghelkhand) was governed by a Śuṅga feudatory. If Pushyamitra was a Śuṅga Baghelkhand must have formed part of the empire of his family. In the *Monuments of Sāñchī*, I. iv. 271, the author does not agree with Bühler in assigning the ins. to the middle of the second century B.C. He prefers B.C. 100-75. Palaeographically the epigraphs are classed with the ins. of Indrāgnimitra, Brahmamitra and Vishṇumitra.