The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c4.s8.19

c4.s8.19

Bh says— sa eva Candraguptaṁ vai dvijo rājye ’bhiṣekṣyati. ²³ So eVā, instead of Vindusāras. ²⁴ So Vā genly, Bd. Vṣ rightly Vindusāra. Bh Vāris°; gbH Vāris°; emBh Vārikāra. Both add, ‘son of Candragupta’; Vṣ tásy= api putro, Bh tat-suto. ²⁵ Ṣaḍ-viṁśat in Ca²a⁴Vā only, which AVā adopts. ²⁶ In gVā ca; fmVā sa. ²⁷ In fmVā mahā-rājā. ²⁸ So Vā. Vṣ, Bh call him Aśokavardhana; jVṣ Asoka°; fBh Aloka°; kVṣ Ayośoka°: see Appendix II, § 1. Bd Aśokānāṁ ca tṛpti-daḥ, perhaps a play on the name. ²⁹ An easy misreading of Kunālas. ³⁰ So CVā here and in next line. But a¹-⁴bdfgklmVā, Bd Kusālas, jVā Kaśālas, which all have Kusāla- in next line, except bVā Nuśāla- and lost in gVā. Vṣ, Bh call Aśoka’s successor Suyaśas; chVṣ Svay°; gVṣ Stuy°; bVṣ Sudhaśāḥ. Kunāla is so named and said to have been Aśoka’s son in Buddhist books, e.g. Divyāvadana, pp. 403, 406 ff, 430.