The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.56

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¹ The daughter of Mahāsena was queen of king Udayana, whose realm of Vatsa probably was identical with Kauśāmbī. Padmāvatī was sister of king Darśaka, and Pradyota, king of Avanti, or Mahāsena, is represented as seeking her hand for his own son (Jacobi, transl. of *Vāsavadattā* in *Intern. Monatschr. für Wissenschaft*, March, 1913). The discovery goes a long way to support the authority of the Purāṇic lists as against the muddled account of the *Mahāvaṁśa*, to which Professor Geiger does 'not hesitate to give the preference wholly and unreservedly'. The learned Professor proceeds to say: 'Again, in the Purāṇas yet another king, called Darśaka, &c., is inserted between Ajātaśatru and Udāyin. That is certainly an error. The Pāli canon indubitably asserts that Udāyibhadda was the son of Ajātaśatru and probably also his successor.' (transl. *Mahāvaṁśa*, 1912, pp. xliv, xlv). Many 'indubitable assertions', unfortunately, are not true. As to the authenticity of the plays, including *Svapnavāsavadatta*, attributed to Bhāsa, see Max Landenau's *Bhāsa Studien* (Harrassowitz, Leipzig, 1918, 51 pp.), and paper by Bhattanātha Svamin of Kumbakonam in *Ind. Ant.*, Dec. 1916, pp. 189–95.