Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c15.s1.t2.15

c15.s1.t2.15

In the absence of further positive evidence we can only tentatively suggest, from the linguistic and ethnographical points of view, that it is not impossible that the Moriyas of Pipphalivana and the Maurya dynasty of Magadha were related to each other, and that Candragupta Maurya was a scion of some Moriyan family, originally of Pipphalivana. But the stories so elaborately expanded and dwelt upon by the Buddhist writers, in their arduous attempt to establish a blood-relationship between the Moriyas and the Sakyas, appear to be false or at least extremely suspect.