Tulsi Prajna 1992 04

SR No.: 524570
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 130
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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get Andrames which leads to corruptions like Agrames, Agrammes, Agramen, Agrammen etc. Such readings do not deserve the attention they have received. Our scholars could have realised it but for their bias,
There is apparently a contradiction between the account of Curtius and Diodorus. Diodorus blames the queen for the murder of the old king while Curtius blames the barber. Diodorus mentions the immoral relationship between the queen and the barber but fails to indicate that the latter became a king after the death of the old king or that he begot the present ruler after putting to death
the young princes. The assertion that "the succession had devolved on him who now ruled” can only mean that the ruler concerned was born before the death of the old king even though he was rumoured to be an illegitimate son of the barber. If Curtius is taken to mean that the barber chopped off the head of the old king, killed his young sons and took the queen for his wife openly, that is simply impossible. Ministers, generels, priests and soldiers of the kingdom could not have taken that easy. So we have to conclude that the king and the young princes were killed secretly and lover of the queen became a guardian and adviser of the young in cumbent of th. throne, He might have weilded the defacto supreme power for the period of the minority of the new king. But he was dead and Xandrames was ruling independently at the time of invasion. Illegitimate birth of Xandrames might or might not have a basis in reality. Scandalous character of the queen as well as the wicked disposition of the son might have contributed to the theory of the illegitimate birth.
The Nandas in the Purāņa texts
Whether the above accounts have anything to do with the Nandas cannot be answered fully and finally without referring to the Purānas. The Purāņa text based on the Matsya, Vāyu and Brahmānda and edited by Pargiter runs as following:
महानन्दिसुतश्चापि शूद्रायां कलिकांशजः । उत्पत्स्यति महापद्मः सर्वक्षत्रान्तको नृपः ॥ ततः प्रभृति राजानो भविष्या शूद्रयोनयः । एकराट् स महापद्म एकच्छत्रो भविष्यति ।। अष्टाशीति तु वर्षाणि पृथिव्याञ्च भविष्यति । सर्वक्षत्रमथोद्धृत्य भाविनार्थेन चोदितः ।।