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VATSA KINGDOM . i 203 Vatsa king, viz., Māgandiyā, daughter of a Kurú Brāhmaṇa, and Sāmāvati, the adopted child of the treasurer Ghosaka. The Milindapañho refers to a peasant woman named Gopāla-mātā who also became his wife.? The Svapna-Vasavadatta attributed to Bhāsa, and some other works. mention another queen named Padmāvati who is represented as sister to king Darsaka of Magadha. The Priyadarsikā speaks of Udayana's marriage with Āraṇyakā, the daughter of Dridhavarman, king of Anga. The Ratnāvali tells the story of the love of the king of Vasta and of Sāgarikā, an attendant of his chief queen Vāsavadattā. Stories about Udayana were widely current in Avanti in the time of Kālidāsa as we learn from the Meghaduta : "prāpy-Āvantim Udayana-kathākovida grāmavriddhān." The Jātakas throw : some sidelight on the character of this king. In the preface to the Matanga Jātaka it is related that in a fit' of drunken rage he had Pindola Bhāradvāja tortured by having a nest of ants tied to him. The Kathā-sarit-sāgara of Somadeva, a writer of the eleventh century A.D, contains a long account of Udayana's Digvijaya. The Priyadarśikā of Sri Harsha* speaks of the king's victory over the lord of Kalinga, and the restoration of his father-in-law Driąhavarman to the throne of Anga. It is difficult to disentangle the kernal of historical truth from the husk of popular fables. It seems that Udayana was a great king who really made some conquests, and contracted matri. monial alliances with the royal houses of Avanti, Anga -and Magadha. But his career was meteoric. He left no worthy successor. Bodhi, his son by the chief queen, preferred à quiet life amidst the sylvan surroundings of
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1 Cf. Anupamā, Divyāvadāna, 36. 2 IV. 8. 25; DPPN, 1. 379.80. 3 Tawney's Translation, Vol. 1, pp. 148 ff. 4 Act IV.
