Old Bramhi Inscriptions In Udaygiri And Khandagiri

SR No.: 020516
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Benimadhab Barua
Publisher: University of Calcutta
Publication Year: 1929
Total Pages: 354
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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Maurya, is described in the Vāyu-Purāņa as a scion of the Nanja family (Nandendu).
To us, the proposed identification of Khâravela's Nanda' with Nandavardhana or Nandivardhana, the first king of the pre-Mauryan Nanda dynasty, is arbitrary. It is difficult to prove that Nanda vardhana either conquered Kalinga or reigned in 458 B.C. to be able to found an era in that year.
We find it difficult to agree with Mr. Jayaswal in thinking that “Khāravela's Sātakarņi” holding territories that lay contiguous to the western border of Khāravela's Kalinga kingdom, was a contemporary of Puşyamitra, the founder of the Surga-Mitra dynasty, in the face of these two facts: (1) that the traditions in the Purānas assert that the Andhra. bhrtya-Sātavāhana rulers established their suzerainty after the reign of the Sungabhịtya-Kāṇya kings had come to an end, 2 as well as after the destruction of the Andhra power ;) and (2) that the territories to the west of Khāravela's Kalinga kingdom were included in the Sunga empire during the reign of Pusyamitra and governed by the Surga Viceroy Agnimitra, the son of Puşyamitra. : Vidišā was governed, according to the Mālavikågnimitra, by Prince Agnimitra acting, no doubt, as the Viceroy of his father, King Puşyamitra. One of the Barhut inscriptions records the first pillar of the Barhut stonerailing as a gift from Cāpādevi, the wife of Revatimitra of Vidišā,5 Another inscription records another gift from Vāsişthi, tbe wife of Veli. mitra of Vidisā. There can be little doubt that both Revatimitra and Velimitra were connected with the Mitra family in Vidisã. The Barhut E. Gateway inscription clearly proves that even when King Dhanabhūti invested the Barhut stone-railing with the gateways, Barhut continued to be included in the Sunga dominions (Suganam raje).6
The Purāṇas definitely state that Siśuka (Simuka of the inscription), the founder of the Andhrabhstya-Sātavāhana dynasty, came to rule the
1. B, C. Mazumdar's Orissa in the Making, p. 56. In the Mudrā-Rakşasa, too, Chandragupta Maurya is described as a son of the Nanda king by a Sūdra woman. In the Buddhist Pradition, the origin of the Moriyas is traced to the Moriya warriors of Pippalivana.
2. Pargiter's Dynasties of the Kali Age, p. 35. 3. Pargiter's Dynasties of the Kali Age, pp. 45.46. 4. H. C. Raychaudhari's Political History of Ancient India, second edition, p. 236. 5. Barhut Inscriptions (Barua and Sinha), No. 4. 6. Barhut Inscriptions (Barua and Sinha), No. 1.