Tribes in Ancient India c9.47

c9.47

As regards Buddhist semi-historical records, we read in the *Lalitavistara*¹ of a king of the Śūrasenas named Suvāhu, who had his capital at Mathurā. He is said to have been a heretic, but a great king of Jambudīpa (India).² Mathurā is also mentioned in the earliest chronicle of Ceylon, the *Dīpavaṃsa*,³ where we are told that sons and grandsons of Prince Sādhina reigned ‘over the great kingdom of Madhurā, the best of towns’.