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402 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA immediately before the Guptas a family called Kota which may have ruled in Pātaliputra.
1 For statements in this section see Ep. Ind. VIII, 60ff; Harshacharita VIII, (p. 251); Cunn., Mahābodhi ; ASI., 1908-9, 141; HQ 1926, 441; 1929, 398, 595f ; 1930, 1 ff. 1933, 419; Kielhorn, N. I. Inscriptions. No. 541 ; Indian Culture, I, 695.; EHI. 3rd ed. 227n; JRAS., 1912, 122 ; Smith, Catalogue of Coins in the Indian Museum, 185, 190, 194; Allan, CICAI. pp. xcvi-xcviii, cx, 150 ff, 169 ff, 173 ff, 195 ff, 202 ff.
