[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924) › c10.63 # The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.63 The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.63 - **Language:** English ### [c10.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.63) According to the Purāṇic lists Udaya’s successors were Nandivardhana and Mahānandin, both of whom are shadowy figures, mere \*nominis umbrae\*.² The long reigns attributed to them, of forty (or forty-two) and forty-three years respectively, total eighty-three or eighty-five years, are not likely to be correct. The names of both kings, \*Nandivardhana\* and \*Mahānandin\*, seem to justify the inference that they were Nandas; and Mahānandin, the last of the dynasty, is said to have had by a Sūdra, or low-caste, woman a son named Mahāpadma Nanda, who usurped the throne, and so established the Nanda family or dynasty. This event may be dated in or about 413 B. C. - [Previous: c10.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.62) - [Next: c10.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.64) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.smith-1924.c10.63) · Pramāṇa