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(i32.7) gives the credit for it rather to his father, the Cedi king Vasu Uparicara. In the Cetiya Jātaka, the five sons of the Coti king Upacara or Apacara are mentioned as founders of the cities of Hatthipura (in the Kuru realm), Assapura (in the kingdom of Anga), Sihapura (in the Panjab), Uttarapañcāla (in Pancāla), and Daddarapura, the Giribbaja being excluded from the list,1 But the Purāņas persistently describe the Bārhadrathas as the royal dynasty that continued to rule the Magadha kingdom almost up to the 6th century B.C.
Seniya Bimbisāra was king of AngaMagadha when the Buddha renounced the world and Mahavira became a Jina. He was junior to the Buddha in age by five years. According to the Buddhist tradition, Bimbisāra's father and immediate predecessor was king Bhatiya or Bhattiya, whose connection with the Bārhadrathas is nowhere mentioned or indicated. King Caņdapajjota of Avanti, Udena of Vamsa, Pasenadi of Košala, Rudrāyaṇa of Sauvira and Pukkusāti of Gandhāra are known to have been his great contemporaries. Similarly Pulika of Avantī, Parantapa of Vamsa, Mahāpasenadi of Kosala and Brahmadatt&_of_Anga may be described as contemporaries of Bimbisāra's father as also of himself. In the Great Epic,
92 Jataka, iii, pp. 454, 460-461.
