Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.309
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.309
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The *Chetiya Jātaka* gives a legendary genealogy of Chaidya kings, taking their descent from Mahāsammata and Māndhātā. Upachara, a King of the line, had five sons who are said to have founded the cities of Hatthipura, Assapura, Sīhapura, Uttarapañchāla and Daddarapura.² This monarch is probably identical with Uparichara Vasu, the Paurava king of Chedi, mentioned in the *Mahābhārata*,³ whose five sons also founded five lines of kings.⁴ But epic tradition associates the scions of Vasu's family with the cities of Kauśāmbī, Mahodaya (Kanauj) and Girivraja.⁵