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THE NAGAS AND THE NĀGALOKA
Vijayasimha
15. Supratistha
pur
Submitted to (VI, 15, 6 ff).
Nagak.
Ri
Acheya Abheya 16. Antaravana Antarapura Antararāja
On the way from Pund
ravardhana to Girinagara, in friendly alliance with Saurāstra (VII, 3,
12 ff ). 17. Saurastra Girinagara Śrivarmā
In marriage & trade al li
ance with Magadha (see Arivarma
above ). 18. Sindhu Simhapura Candapradyota At war with Saurāstra
(VII, 4. ). 19. Ujjaini Ujjaini
Jayasena
Marriage alliance with
Kanakapura (VIII, 4, 7). 20. Pandya Madura
Pandirāja
VIII. 2, 3. (Southern Mathura ) 21. Kiskindha Meghapura Meghavāhana Marriage alliance with Malaya
Kanakapura (VIII, 7, 4ff). 22. Toyāvali Bhūmitilaka Sriraksa
Revolt of Pavanavega, island
nephew of the king, and
Nagak.'s help (VIII, 12, Raksa Mahāraksa 12ff). 23. Andhra Dantipura Candragupta Marriage alliance with
Kanakapura (IX, 1, 7ff). 24. Tribhuvana- Tri.
Vijayandhara A dependency of Dantitilaka
pura, in marriage alliance with Kanakapura (IX,
1, 13). 9. The Nagas and the Nagaloka. The hero of the work, while yet a child, is said to have fallen into a well where it was received by a Nāga who adopted him, gave him the name of Nāgakumāra and educated him. The Nágas bave played a very important part in the folklore,superstition and poetry of India from very early times down to the present day. It is generally believed in scholarly circles that there is nothing but fiction behind the Nāga-stories. A few attempts have recently been made to lift the Nāgas from the limbo of myth to the region of history, but the material available on the point is so vast and yet so complicated and disjointed that a prolonged study and research in collecting, sifting and connecting the parts in to a whole is necessary before any definite and generally acceptable conclusions can be reached I shall here merely mention some of the important allusions to the Nāgas in ancient records and the conclusions that have been or may be drawn from them,
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