Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c20.s9.24

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⁷⁸ Āva Cū p. 540; also Abhidhānārājendrakosa, under "Kākajangha." According to the Purāṇas, Śiśunāga was succeeded by his son Kākavarṇa, and according to the Ceylonese chronicles, by his son Kālāśoka. According to Professor Jacobi, Geiger and Bhandarkar, Kālāśoka and Kākavarṇa are identical. Bāṇa in his Harṣacarita gives a curious legend concerning the death of Kākavarṇa (Kālāśoka). It is stated that Kākavarṇa Śaiśunāga was taken somewhere in an artificial aerial car and was murdered in the vicinity of his city with a dagger thrust into his throat (P H A. I, p. 180 f, Pradhan, op cit., p. 223f.