Early History of Orissa

SR No.: 006922
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amarchand Mittal
Publisher: Jain Cultural Research Society
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 506
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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AN EARLY HISTORY OF ORISSA
although the doubling of the ta before ra (mittra) is not found on the coins, the two may well be identical especially as Pabhosa may be presumed to be within the territory of a king of Kaušāmbi. The inscription is dated in the 10th year of a king Udāka, who has been identified by K. P. Jayaswala with the 5th king of the sunga dynasty, whose name appears in various forms in the Puranic lists:-Bhadraka in the Bhāgwata Purāņa, Ardraka and Odruka in the Vishnu Purāņa, Audhraka in the Vāyu Purāņa and Aitaka in Matsya Purāņa. According to the Puranic chronology, the date in question could be 120 B. C. and a date of 125-100 B. C. would suit Brihaspatimitra's coins. As to the Mora inscription, there is no palæographic objection in identifying the Brihaspatimitra mentioned there, whose daughter married the king of Mathurā, with Brihaspatimitra I of the coins .... It is quite impossible to identify the Brihaspatimitra of the coins with the Śunga Pushya mitra- quite apart from the improbability of this use of synonyms-for the coins cannot be removed from Kośāmbi, the coins of which are a very homogeneous series." The same argument applies to the Pañchāla coin.
Coming to the identification of Bșihaspati of the Divyävadāna with that of the inscriptions, we note that the Divyāvadāna“ mentions the following geneology after Samprati, the grandson of Asoka -- Sampadi, Brihaspati, Vșishasena, Pashyadharman and Pushyamitra. K. P. Jayaswal” has brushed aside any possibility of the identi
1. This ie, according to Allan, the correct reading. The Jaina Commentator, Silanka equates Ulaka with Ardraka, (Jacobi's Jaina Sūtras, Pt. II, p. 417)
2. JBORS, 1917, pp. 457 & 472-83. 3. Qtd. PHAI, p. 893. 4. P. 433. 5. JBORS, III, p. 480