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INTERNAL EVIDENCES
: 269 ingly, we arrive at 30 B. C. (324—137—112—45) as the date of Simuka, in which year he might have ousted the last Kāņva and had himself reigned for 23 years. Allowing 18 years (10 years, according to some) for Krishņa, his successor, we arrive at 12 B. C. as the date of Sātakarņi and accordingly Khāravela ascended the throne of Kalinga in 14 B. C. BRIHASPATIMITRA:
We are informed that Khāravela, in the 12th year of his reign, subdued Brihaspatimitra, the ruler of Magadha.' Now, we come across the following different rulers of this name who flourished within a few centuries this side or that of the Christian era :(1) Brihaspatimitra (Brihaśvātimitra) occurring on
an inscribed brick at Mora, near Mathura, commemorating the erection of a temple by his daughter,
Yaśamitā. . (2) Bahasatimitta from the Pabhosa inscription (near
Allahabad) commemorating the excavation of a cave by his maternal uncle (mātula) Ashādhasena. The inscription is dated in the 10th year of a
king Udāka. (3) The Kośāmbi coins suggest two different Bșihas
patimitras on the consideration of their types and
1. John Allan, (Catalogue of Coins of Ancient India, London, 1936, p. xcviii) says :-"...we cannot agree that Brihaspatimitra is mentioned in the Häthigumphi inscription The word in question begins as bahu, the certain elements in it seems to be bahu(s... )idita ; it is very probably not a proper name at all, for the suggested reading of the preceding word as Māgadha cha rājāndin is extremely improbable philologically as well as palaeographically."
2. Line 12: Mūgadhain cha rījānüm bahasat imitam päde vandā puyati'.
3. Vogel, JRAS, 1912, Pt. II (i) p. 120. 4. EI, Vol. II, p. 241 & Plate.
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