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yupa has been introduced between Palaka and Ajaka, but as that name does not occur, in all Mss, we th: ought to take no notice of him", also, cf. Dr. Ramashanker Tripathi, Pracin Bharata ka Itihasa, p.72. "The Puranas insert a third name - Visakhayupa in between Palaka and Ajaka, is probably a mistake! Ajaka is assigned a regnal period of 21 years, after which his son Avantivardhana reigned for 20 years. Thus the three kings Palaka, Ajaka and Ayantivardhana ruled for 61 years. Then, the rule of Pradyotas ended. Thus both the Jain and Puranic chronology agree that the Palaka-dynasty reigned for 60 or 61 years. (cf. Dr. Shanti Lal Shah, chronological problems, pp. 25-27).
(211) A Nanda king is twice mentioned in the Hathigumpha
inscription of king Kharavela of Kalinga (Orissa) (cf. E.J.) Rapson, Cambridge History of India, Vol. I, p. 280). The sixth line of the inscription is: "Pancame cedanti vase nandaraja-ti-vasa-sata oga hitam tamsuliya-vatabandi (m) nagaram (pavesayati)........", (which means, "And now in the fifth year (of his reign), he (Kharavela) brings in to capital Tosala or Tamsuliya (or entered a particular town through or executed some public work associated with) the canal excavated by the king Nanda 300 years before". The word "tivasa-sata" has been translated as in 103rd years (of Nanda king) by some scholars, the conscientious scholars like Dr.K.P.Jayaswal, Dr. R.L. Banerjee, etc. have translated it as "300 years "(cf. Journal of Bihar and Orissa Research Society, Dec. 1917, pp. 425 ff) Dr. Shanti Lal Shah has made the following remark: "That ti-vasa-sata means" 300 years and not 103, is certain. See Dr. Banerjee's artiçal in J.B.O. R.S. Vol. III, p. 496 ff. 9 May add here that because the years are expressed in compound the word 'Sata' is used in the singular instead of the plural". (Op cit. p. 41 n).
Thus, the above Nanda king flourished 300 years before the fifth year of Kharavela's reign Dr. Jayaswal has also shown that this Nanda king was no other than · Nandivardhana cf. op. cit. Vol. XIII op. 240).
