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for ceremonial purposes. Five hundred Licchavi Rājās set forth to capture Bandhula, but the latter 'sped a shaft and it cleft the heads of all the chariots and passed right through the five hundred kings,'who forthwith died in gruesome circumstances.
The Mallas appear to have lost their independence to that ambitious monarch of Magadha, Ajātasatru, and their dominions were annexed to the Magadhan empire.1
1 D. R. Bhandarkar, Carmichael Lectures, 1918, p. 79.
