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512 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
by Chandra Gupta: Arl ?)ipure cha para-kalatra kāmukam kamini-veśaguptascha aśātayaditi. 1
Chandra
Guptah Saka-patim
According to the commentator Sankara the Parakalatra and Kamini referred to above was Dhruva-devi, and the ruler of the Sakas was secretly killed by Chandragupta disguised as Dhruva-devi while the former was making advances of love. The Śringaraprakāśa by Bhoja throws additional light on the point quoting passages from the Devichandraguptam (see Aiyangar Com. Vol. 359ff; also Lévi, J. A. 1923, 201 ff; Devichandraguptam by A. Rangaswami Sarasvati, Ind. Ant. 1923, p. 181 ff.). The last mentioned work is a play by Visakhadatta, the author of the Mudrarakshasa. Quotations from the Devichandraguptam are also found in the Natya darpana of Ramachandra and Gunachandra.
