Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.179

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.179

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c4.t2.179

⁶ J., III, pp. 313-4. One more instance may be added here. A son of a woodgatherer (*kaṭṭhahāri*) is made a king in the *Kaṭṭhahāri*, J. I, pp. 134-6.
7. op. cit., pp. 126-7. Instances of such usurpations are not wanting in history. Leaving aside the questionable origin of Chandragupta Maurya Mahāpadma who was a Śudra did occupy the throne of Magadha : *Cf.* Pargiter, *Dynasties of the Kali Age*, p. 25.

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