Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.305

c8.305

Magadha.—Pāṇini in his Aṣṭādhyāyī (4. 1. 170) and Patañjali in his Mahābhāṣya (1. 1. 2, p. 56) refer to it. Pāṇini uses the form Māgadha and Patañjali also uses Sumagadhā (2. 1. 2, p. 48). According to the Daśakumāracaritam (ed. H. H. Wilson), the lord of Magadha went to wage war with the monarch of Mālava, with the result that the king of Mālava was defeated and captured alive. But the Magadhan king mercifully reinstated him in his kingdom (pp. 3ff.). The royal ladies of Magadha were kept in security in a spot in the Vindhya forest inaccessible to enemies (p. 6). The Raghuvamśa (Sarga I, v. 31) points out that king Dilipa had a lawfully wedded queen named Sudakṣiṇā belonging to the Magadhan royal family.