Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c55.3

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¹ Coins have been found which Sir Alexander Cunningham, the most competent critic on Hindu numismatics, has placed about 1000 BC. The Purāṇas and Khāravela's inscription (JBORS, III, pp. 436-7) indicate the date of the Mahā-Bhārata to have been *c.* 1425 BC. Megasthenes, 310 B.C., found the Hindus counting 154 kings from the earliest times to Chandragupta.