The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.55

c10.55

⁴ The name Udaya has variant forms, Udayana, Udayāśva, &c., in the Purāṇas. The Buddhists call him Udayi Bhadda (Udayibhadraka), and represent him as the son of Ajātaśatru, whose grandson he was, according to the Purāṇas (*Mahāvaṁśa*, ch. iv; *Dulva*, in Rockhill, *Life of the Buddha*, p. 91; Rhys Davids, *Dialogues* (1899), p. 68). The building of the city of Pātaliputra, or rather of 'Kusumapura, on the south bank of the Ganges, in his fourth year', by Udaya is asserted by the Vāyu Purāna. This statement indicates that Kusumapura, the oldest settlement, was on the bank of the Ganges, at an appreciable distance from the later capital, Pātaliputra, on the Sōn.