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(Hindi Sabhyata, p. 267) have explicitly refuted this belief of Ceylonese chronicles.
221. The greatest blunder committed by the historians
in believing the Ceylonese chronology which states Sisunaga as the successor of Ajātasatru, is probabl due to the misinterpretation of the following verse of the Puran.
Astatrimsacchatam bhavya pradyotahpancate sutah ! Hatva tesam yasah risanamsisunako bhavisyati !! The meaning of this verse becomes clear in the light of the foregoing discussion. To make it more clear, we should know that in Puranas, the name of the king of the dynasties of Kali age are mentioned in the following order:
(i) The king of Pandaya-dynasty from Abhimanyu,
who fought in the Mahabharata war, to Ksemaka, the fourth king to reign after Udayan, the contemporary of Buddha. This dynasty first first reigned at Hastinapura and later on removed the seat of its rule to Kausambi, during the reign of Nicaksus, the successor of Adhis imakrisna.
(ii)
The king of Iksavaku-dynasty from Brhadvalo, who fought in the Mahabharata war, to Sumitra, the fourth king to reign after Prasenjita, the contemporary of Buddha. This dynasty reigned at Srivasti in Kosala.
(iii)
The king of Lunar dynasty of Pandaya and successors of Brhadratha from Sahadeva, who fought in the Mahabharata-war to Ripunjya, the predecessor of Canda Pradyota (Mahasena), the contemporary of Buddha. The successors of Bahadratha (i. e. Parhadrathas) are also called Magadhas probably because they belonged to the dynasy of Brhadratha, Jarasandha, etc., who were the rulers of Magadha, and also Somadhi, the son of Sahadeva established his reign of Girivraja in Magadha after the Mahabharata war. But, after giving the chronology of the twenty-two kings, the Puranas say:
