Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c15.s1.t2.3

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The *Mahāvaṁsa Ṭīkā* continues the history of the Moriyas, saying that, "then did the Brāhmaṇa Cāṇakka anoint a glorious youth, known by the name of Candagutta, as king over all Jambudīpa, born of a noble clan, the Moriyas [*Moriyakula-sambhavo*], when, filled with bitter hate, he had slain the ninth Nanda Dhanananda."² The *Mahāvaṁsa Ṭīkā*³ and the *Dīpavaṁsa*⁴ also record the same tradition. These sources not only connect the founder of the Magadhan Mauryan dynasty, Candragupta, with the Moriyas, but the *Mahāvaṁsa Ṭīkā* further states that Aśoka's mother, Dhammā, was also a Moriyan princess.⁵