Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c16.s1.8

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¹ In the *Mālavikāgnimitram* (Act IV. Verse 14; Tawney's translation, p. 69) Agnimitra claims to belong to the *Baimbika-kula*. A king named Bimbaki is mentioned in *The Ocean of Story*, Penzer I, 112, 119. Mr. H. A. Shah suggests (*Proceedings of the Third Oriental Conference*, Madras, p. 379) that the Baimbikas were connected with the family of Bimbisāra. It is more probable that the epithet 'Baimbika' (in the passage *dākshiṇyaṁ nāma bimboshṭhi Baimbikānāṁ kulavratam*) is connected with *bimbikā*, a kind of plant (*IC*, 1938, Jan. 365) and also perhaps with the river Bimbikā mentioned in the Bharhut Inscriptions (Barua and Sinha, p. 8). *Cf*. *Pādma*, *Bhūmikhaṇḍa* 90, 24; *Baimbaki* in Patañjali, IV, 1. 97. In the *Harivaṁśa* (*Bhavishya*, II, 40) the Brāhmaṇa *Senānī* who is to restore the *Aśvamedha* in the Kali yuga is represented as an *Audbhijja*, 'Plant-born', and a Kāśyapa. Jayaswal identifies him with Pushyamitra. Curiously enough, the *Baudhāyana Srauta Sūtra* (ed. Caland, Vol. III, p. 449) represents the *Baimbakayaḥ* as Kaśyapas.