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273 years. Admitting both the alternatives to be equally possible, we have to look out for a King Nanda of Magadha who conquered Kalinga, carried away the Kalinga throne of Jina as a trophy and opened out a canal in the Tosali division and not far away from the city of Kalinga, either 98 (103-5) or 295 (300—5) years before Khāravela's accession.
The only key to the identification of Sätakani furnished in the HathiGumphā inscription is that he held territories contiguous to the western border of Kbāravela's kingdom of Kalinga, comprising, as it did, South Kosala as one of its three main divisions. The tradition in the BhavişyaPurāna leads us to think that the first seven Meghavābana and the first seven Sātavābana kings reigned as contemporaries, in which case if Khāravela was the sixth Meghavāhana king, Satakani must have been the sixth Satavahana ruler. It remains to be seen whether the tradition in the Parāņa can be so rigorously interpreted as to mean that the first king of one dynasty was a contemporary of the first king of the other, the second of the second, and so on.
Regarding Bahasatimita our information from the Hāthi-Gumpbā inscription is that he is the king of Magadha whom King Khāra vela subdued in the twelfth year of bis reign. In Yasamita's Brick-tablet inscription, found in Mathurā, Queen Yasamitā is described as the daughter of Brhās vātimita, the royal personage whose name is taken by Dr. Vogel to be the same as Bahasatimita or Bșhaspatimitra. In one of the two Pabhosā inscriptions of Aşāờhasena, King Āşadhasena, the king of Adhichatrā, is represented as the maternal uncle (mātula) of King Bahasatimita. The same Pabhosã inscription records the construction of a cave in the tenth year of Udāka whom Mr. Jayaswal identifies with Odraka, Odruka or Ardraka, mentioned in the Purāṇas as the fifth king of the Sunga dynasty, suggesting that King Āsādhasena of Adhichatrā was feudatory to the Sunga kings of Magadha. A coin, too, has been found with a Brāhmi legend recording the name of Bahasatimita. The legend in the Divya. vadāna speaks of a Brhaspati as a Maurya king among the successors of Samprati, the grandson of King Asoka. It remains to be seen whether King Bahasatimita, mentioned as a contemporary of King Kbāravela, is the same personality as Bahasatimita of the coin, King Bahasatimita of the Pabhosā inscription, Bệhāsvātimita of Yaśamitā's Brick-tablet, and Bịhaspati of the Divyâvadāna, or he is a king of any neo-Mitra dynasty, which came possibly into existence sometime after the Kāņvas.'
The data of chronology which may be collected thus from the HathiGumphā inscription and other sources are insufficient to determine
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