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vasa-sata" as denoting 1300 years and not 113 years as proposed by Jayaswal and Banerji in their translation of the passage: "He thoroughly breaks up the confederacy of the Tramira (Dramira) countries of 113 (1300 years), which has been a source of danger to (his) country (janapada)." But a confederacy of rulers as old as 1300 years at the eve of the Christian era may be simply unthinkable.
ka tam
1. Lino 11: "Janapada bhavanaṁ cha terasa.va8d-8ata
bhindati tramira-daha (8) Sanghatan." 2. EI, Vol. XX, pp. 71f.
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