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Apart from these, there are personal and dynastic names known in ancient India which are much akin to Meghavāhana. Such instances are:-Sātavāhana or Sālivāhana, the great Andhra-Sātavāhana dynasty ; Dadhivāhana, a Jaina king who ruled in Champā. Nahavāhana was another king who was a contemporary of Sālivābava.?
It is very likely, however, as suggested by K. P. Jayaswals that Megha, in the Purānas, is but a shortening from Meghavāhana or Mahāmeghavāhana, which is the bigh-sounding epithet, whereby Khāravela and other kings of the same royal house were designated. The Meghas or Maghas ruled in Kośala as late as the 3rd Century A. D.4
the Tilaka Mañjari. Rev. Pt Sukhlalji has very kindly given the author these references.
1. Âvasyaka Chürņi, II, pp. 205f; Uttaradhyayana Niryukti, pp. 294f.
2. Cunningham, AGI, p. 374; J. C. Jain, LAI, p. 393. 3. JBORS, IV, p. 483. Meghi iti sanikhyitäh'. 4. JRAS, 1911, p. 32; Pargiter, DKA, p. 51; PHAI, p. 532.
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