Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s38.21

c11.s38.21

Scions of the Mauryan family are heard of centuries after the fall of the Mauryan empire, and in remote parts of the country. In Magadha itself a certain Pūrṇavarman is mentioned by Hiuen Tsang as a descendant of Aśoka; and Śankara, the great philosopher of Advaita, might have had him in mind when he said: there have been no world emperors (sārvabhauma) after Pūrṇavarman! The Mauryas of Konkan had their capital at Puri, a flourishing amporium on the Elephanta island near Bombay, and they became subject to the Chālukyas of Bādāmi in the sixth century A. D. A certain Dhavala is heard of in the Kanaswa inscription (A. D. 738-9) in the Kotah state, Rajputana. And a Maurya chief Govindarāja is mentioned in an eleventh century inscription from Khandesh as a subordinate of the Yādava Seuṇachandra II¹. The memory of Mauryan rule persisted in Kuntala for a long time and it is alluded to in Kannada inscriptions of the eleventh century from Karṇāṭaka.