Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.210

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⁵ Turnour, N. L. Dey and others mention Bhātiya or Bhaṭṭiya as the name of the father. The Tibetans, on the other hand, call him Mahāpadma. Turnour, *Mahāwaṁśa*, I. p. 10; *J. A. S. B.*, 1872, i 298; 1914, 321; *Essay on Guṇāḍhya*, p. 173. The Purāṇas name Hemajit, Kshemajit, Kshetrojā or Kshetraujā as the father of Bimbisāra. If the Purāṇic account is correct Bhātiya or Bhaṭṭiya may have been a secondary name or epithet comparable to the names 'Seṇiya' and Kūṇiya of Bimbisāra and Ajātaśatru respectively. But it is not safe to rely on an uncorroborated statement of the Purāṇas, particularly when there is hardly any unanimity with regard to the form of the name.