The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.54

c10.54

When Ajātasatru died (*cir.* 527 B. C.), he was succeeded, according to the Purāṇas, by a son named Darsaka, who was in turn succeeded by his son Udaya.⁴ The Buddhist books erroneously omit the intermediate name, and represent Udaya as the son and immediate successor of Ajātasatru. The reality of the existence of Darsaka, as king of Magadha, with his capital at Rājagriha, is established by the discovery of a play named *Svapnavāsavadatta*, attributed to Bhāsa, perhaps in the third century after Christ, which represents Darsaka as the contemporary of Udayana, king of Vatsa, and Mahāsena (*alias* Pradyota), king of Avanti, or Ujjain.¹