Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c16.s2.7

c16.s2.7

As to the first point Rivett-Carnac⁴ and Jayaswal⁵ have shown that several coin-names besides that of Agnimitra can be indentified with those found in the Purāṇic lists of Śuṅga and Kāṇva kings; for example, Bhadra-ghosha may be identified with Ghosha, the seventh king of the Purāṇic list of Śuṅga kings. Bhūmimitra may be identified with the Kāṇva king of that name. Jethamitra, who is identified with the successor of Agnimitra, viz., Vasu-Jyeshṭha or Su-Jyeshṭa, who is called simply Jyeshṭha in the *k Vishṇu* manuscript,¹ no doubt left coins that belong to a different series. But even he is closely connected with an Agnimitra. Several names indeed cannot be identified, but they may have been names of those Śuṅgas who survived the usurpation of Vasudeva Kāṇva and the remnant of whose power was destroyed by the so-called Andhras and Śiśunandi.²