Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c27.4

c27.4

§ 166. A new republic was formed about this time on the ruins of the ancient ones in Rajputana. This was founded by one Pushymitra, as the name signifies. The Purāṇas dealing with the Post-Andhra rulers of Vidiśā and thereabouts mention the rulers of a new capital Kāñchanakā. The last Kāñchanakā rulers, that is, those who flourished about 499 A.C., the closing date of the Purāṇas,² were ‘*Pushya-mitras*’ and ‘*Patumitras*’, but the rulers before them are kings mentioned by name (*e.g.*, king Vindhya-Sakti, king Sakyamān, etc.). While the other Purāṇas put down the Pushyamitras in the plural, the Bhāgavata mentions the President Pushyamitra (‘Pushyamitro’tha Rājanyaḥ’) *i.e.*, it mentions the original founder. Some copies of the Vishṇu Purāṇa say that Pushyamitra, *i.e.*, the President, was powerful and victorious (‘**सर्ववर्णेषु बलवान्**