Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.s2.t2.71

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Such an uncertainty also prevails, we think, as regards the few other unnamed kings of Pañcāla mentioned in the *Jātakas*. A Pañcāla king is mentioned in the *Brahmadatta Jātaka*,⁸ another in the *Sattigumbha Jātaka*⁹ and a third in the *Gaṇḍatiṇḍu Jātaka*.¹⁰ All these kings may be purely legendary, as the stories told about them are too much childish, except, perhaps, the one whose oppressive measures over his subjects and the devastated condition of his kingdom are so vividly and naturally described in the illuminating gāthās intervening the Jātaka as to give a historical tinge to the whole narrative.¹ But what is of more importance and value in this connection is the historical association of these unnamed Pañcāla Kings with Brahmadatta, their family title² and Bhārata their dynastic title.³