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with Ajātasattu. Pasenadi did not live long after this. Taking advantage of his absence from the capital, Digha-Kārāyana (cārāyaṇa), the commander-in-chief, placed Viąūdabha, a son of Pasenadi, on the throne. The last interview of Pasenadi with the Buddha, as recorded in the Dhammacetiya Sutta,1 took place when both of them were in their eightieth year.
In the Introduction to the Bhaddasāla Jätakas, we read that Viļūdabha marched against the Śákyas on detection of the fraud committed by them by giving his father a slave woman to marry instead of a Sākya girl. He massacred the Sākyas brutally during the Buddha's lifetime. But this story does not tally with the account in the Mahāparinibbāna Suttanta in which the Sākyas of Kapilavatthu claimed and received a share of the Buddha's bodily remains.
By the machination of the Magadhan minister, Vassakāra, the unity of the Licchavis was completely destroyed and it became easy for Ajātasattu to conquier Vesāli. After the fall of the Vajjians, it may be supposed that their allies, the Mallas "and the kings of Kāsī and Kosala with their vassals, came under the sway of Ajätasattu.
1 Majjhima, il, p. 118f. % Jataka, 1v, p. 144f.
