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SUCCESSORS OF AGNIMITRA
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Agnimitra's successor, as we have already seen, was Jyeshtha ( of the k Vishnu manuscript ), who is very probably identical with Jethamitra of the coins.
The next king Vasumitra was a son of Agnimitra. During the life-time of his grandfather he had led the imperial army against the Yavanas and defeated them on the Sindhu (possibly in Central India) which probably formed the boundary between the empire of Pushyamitra and the Indo-Greek territories in Malwa.
Vasumitra's successor is called Bhadraka in the Bhāgavata Purāna, Ārdraka and Odruka in the Vishnu, Āndhraka in the Vayu, and Antaka in the Matsya Purāņa. Jayaswal identified him with Udāka, a name occurring in a Pabhosā inscription. The epigraph has been translated thus : “By Āsādhasena, the son of Gopāli Vaihidari and maternal uncle of king Bahasatimitra, son of Gopāli, a cave was caused to be made in the tenth year of U use of the Kassapiya Arhats." We learn from another Pabhosā inscription that Āsādhasena belonged to the royal family of Adhichhatrā (Ahichhatrā), the capital of North Pañchāla. Jayaswal maintained that Odraka (identified with Udāka) was the paramount Sunga sovereign, while the family of Āsādhasena was either gubernatorial or feudatory to the Magadha throne. Marshall, 2 on the other hand, identified the fifth Sunga with king Kāsiputra 3 Bhāgabhadra mentioned in a Garuda Pillar Inscription found in the old city of Vidišā, now Besnagar. Jayaswal identified Bhāgabhadra with Bhāga Sunga, i.e., Bhāgavata
Agnimitra. King Brahmamitra is the husband of Nāgadevi, another prominent donor mentioned in the epigraphs.
1 Coins of Ancient India, p. 74. Allan, CICAI., xcvi. Note the connection of Jethamitra with Agnimitra. The name of a Jyeshthamitra is said to occur also in a Brāhmt inscription on certain stone fragments recently discovered at Kosam (Amrita Bazar Patrika, July 11, 1936, p. 5).
2 A Guide to Sanchi, p. 11 n.
3 Sircar suggests Kautsiputra. 0. P. 90-50.
