The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c11.9

c11.9

The reigns of the fifth and sixth kings, Bimbisāra, or Śrēṇika, and Ajātaśatru or Kūṇika, were well remembered owing to the wars and events in religious history which marked them. We may therefore assume that the lengths of those reigns were known more or less accurately, and are justified in accepting the concurrent testimony of the *Vāyu* and *Matsya Purāṇas*, that Bimbisāra reigned for twenty-eight years.