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² *Mahāvaṁśa*, ch. iv. The Parthian kings were Orodes, Phraates IV, and Phraates V (Von Gutschmid, *Geschichte Irans*, p. 116). Local Jain tradition in South Bihār ignores the accusation of parricide, and credits Kūnika or Ajātaśatru with having ‘ruled the country for eighty years according to the laws of his father’, who is represented as having been a devout Jain, responsible for many buildings at Bhāgalpur and elsewhere (*Ind. Ant.*, xxxi (1902), p. 71). S. V. Venkatesvara Aiyar, consequently, disbelieves the parricide story (‘*The Ancient History of Magadha*’, *Ind. Ant.*, 1916, p. 12). He compares Ajātaśatru with Harsha and Akbar, because he is related to have patronized various forms of religion (Ibid., p. 13).