Tulsi Prajna 2006 04

SR No.: 524627
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2006
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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and which also necessitates a readjustment of the date of the Mahābhāṣya. Compared with notices contained in Jaina and Brahmanical sources this reference further enables us to fix the date of the accession of the sunga dynasty.
The inscription is the oldest epigraphical reference to the Cedi dynasty, to which Khāravela belonged, and we may infer that it had immigrated into Kalinga from Mahākośala. Its rulers used the designation Aira, and an Aira was probably Aśoka's viceroy in Tosali, where his family later on ruled as independent kings, Khāravela being the third king in direct succession.
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