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² Mr. J. C. Ghosh is inclined to include among the Kāṇva kings a ruler named Sarvatāta who is known (from the Ghosuṇḍī Inscription, *Ind. Ant.* 1932, Nov., 203 ff; *Ep. Ind.*, xxii, 198 ff.) to have been a devotee of Saṁkarshaṇa and Vāsudeva and a performer of the horse-sacrifice. But the identification of the Gājāyana family, to which the king belonged, with the Gālāyanas or Godāyanas (*cf.* IHQ. 1933, 797 ff) does not seem to be plausible. There seems to be no more reason to identify the Gājāyanas with the Gādāyanas than with the Gāhāyanas or Gāṅgāyanas of the Śunaka or Kaśyapa group (Caland, *Baudh. Srauta sūtra* III, 423-454). It is important to remember the fact that the *Harivaṁśa* refers to a Kaśyapa *dvija* as the reviver of the *Aśvamedha* in the Kali Age. The Gāṅgāyanas no doubt also recall the Gaṅgas of Mysore who claimed to belong to the Kāṇvāyana gotra (*A New History of the Indian People*, Vol. VI, p 248). But the equation Gājāyana = Gāṅgāyana is not proved.