The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c15.10

c15.10

¹ Ibid., pp. 326—32. A passage in the Jaina Harivaṁśa Purâṇa (Canto LX, 83—88) has the prophecy that Gupta rule will commence 720 years after the Nirvâṇa of Mahâvîra, that is, about 193-94 A.D., and that it will endure for 231 years. (K. B. Pathak, Ind. Ant., XV, 1886, p. 141.) On the Vâkâṭakas in Gupta history, see Krishnaswamy Aiyangar, Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol. XV, No. 2, pp. 153 et eq.; Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute, Vol. V, Part I, pp. 31 et seq., Y. R. Gupte, Journal of Indian History, December, 1926, pp. 399 et seq.