Suvas 1939 05 Pustak 01 Ank 11

SR No.: 034623
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Suvas Karyalay
Publisher: Suvas Karyalay
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 66
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Suvas, & India
File Size: 5 MB

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Specimen-extracts from ancient India Vol. II - 453 Prince Mahendra had renounced the world and had entered the Buddhist ordera o, while he was unmarried. So there is no question of his having had any children. After Kuņāl's blindness, the next heir to the throne must have been either Kuņāl's son, or in his absence another grandson, if there were any. We know that as long as Priyadarsin was not born, Asoka had appointed his "grandson " Dasarath as his successor; and hence it is not unreasonable to come to the conclusion that this Dasarath was the son of the younger brother of Kunāl-the brother whose name we have yet to find out al. Dasarath must have been elder than Priyadarsin, who has born in A. M. 223=394 B. C.22, when Kuņal was 32 to 33 years old23. This means that Kuņāl had a son many years after his marriage24. His younger brother, who was his junior by a couple of years only, must have had a son much earlier than that and this son must have been Dasarath, who was thus elder than Sampratios. Ašoka must have de:lared
(20) Pp. 237 above. (21) See the chronological list on pp. 236.
(22) The Christian New Year begins nearly two months and some days after the Hindu New Year (Vikram Era). Hence, when we want to give the date of any event that has taken place during these intervening days or iminediately after that, we are required to state two years of the Christian Era, viz. 304-303. He was born during the ascendancy of the Puşya constellation, i. e, in the bright balf of Posa. There were no two Posas during that year, otherwise one of them must have been stated as Adhik. Such "Adhik"(additional)- months could be included during two months only-Poşa & Aşadh. (K. S. S. Com. pp. 131 and my article in the Chaitra Number of "Jaina Prakas.") Taking all these things into consideration, his birth must have taken place on the 10th to 15th day of Poşa. The full-moon day is given importance ip the rock-edicts. It can be either due to that day being considered as important from the religious point of view or due to its being the birthday of Priyadarsin. Of these the latter cause is more probable.
(23) Because he was born in B. C. 337=A. M. 190. (Pp. 231 above).
(24) This was what grieved the beart of Asoka. After Kuņāl's losing his eyes on account of his carelessness, Asoka had intended to atone for it by appointing Kuņāls son as the heir to the throne. Kuņāl did not have any issue for a pretty long time. Asoka was growing older; and hence, being anxious to appoint some one as his successor, he designated Dasarath as the next emperor. We know that this arrangement was provisional.
(25) Daśarath's father was born in 330 B. C. If we accept the hypotliesis that he married at the age of 14, then the marriage must have taken place in