Tribes in Ancient India c50.26

c50.26

Kālidāsa, who seems to have derived his materials from the Purāṇas and Epics, speaks of the intermarriage of the early kings of Kośala with the ruling family of Magadha. He says that Dilīpa, the father of Raghu, married Sudakṣiṇā, daughter of the king of Magadha.⁴ In his beautiful account of the Svayaṃvara of Indumatī, Kālidāsa also refers to the prominent position occupied by the Magadhan king.⁵ We have a description of Magadha in the Daśakumāracaritam of Daṇḍin who belongs to the same period as Kālidāsa. Daṇḍin there speaks of a monarch, Rājahamṣa, who was a powerful king of Magadha, and who defeated Mānusāra, king of Mālava.⁶ Bhāsa's Svapnavāsavadattā also speaks of Magadha and its king, whose daughter Padmāvatī married the king of Vatsa, Udayana.⁷