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KINGS AND PEOPLES
95 Nakula, Bhimasena, Yudhitthila and Sahadeva, all of whom were chosen as husbands at the same time by Kaņhā (Sk. Krşņā, another name for Draupadi according to the Great Epic), the only daughter and only child of the king of Kāśi. It speaks of them without reference to any kingdom and applies the epithet of rājā only to Sabadeva. The Jātakas have nothing to say with regard to the war of the Pāndavas with the Kauravas. They tell us nothing also about the matrimonial alliance of the Pāndavas with the Andhaka-Vrspis or Yadavas. Evidently the Kuru king Ajjuna of the family of Yudhitthila had nothing to do with Ajjuna and Yudhitthila among the five Pāņdava brothers. In the Mahavamsa (vii, 50, 69, 72), by the term Pandurājā is meant the king of Pandya in South India with Madhură (modern Madoura) as its capital. The Jātakas are silent as to the connection of Pandurājā, the ancestor of the Pāņdavas, with any kingdom in Northern or Southern India having Madhurā for its capital. They are eloquent in praise of king Ajjuna during whose reign the Kuru country was an ideal kingdom, ruled most righteously and noted for virtue. His family chaplain was a Brahmin of pure conduct by the name of Sucirata and
1 Cf. Rurudhamma Jätaka (No. 276), Dhūmakārt (418), Sambhava 615), Vidhurapandita (545).
