The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c10.77

c10.77

¹ K. P. Jayaswal interprets *nava-Nandāh* as meaning the 'new', not the 'nine Nandas'. See *J. B. O. Res. Soc.* iv. 91–5. On this supposition they must be distinguished from Kshemendra's *Pūrvanandāh*, the 'early' Nandas, namely Nanda(or Nandi)vardhana and Mahānanda (or -nandin). Harit Krishna Deb (ibid.) gives good reasons for believing that Chandragupta Maurya was a kinsman of the respectable early Nandas and not a Sūdra or low-caste man, like the later Nandas of ill-repute.