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Dandia's iadebtedness to Sabandhu
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This is probably the same Subandhu as has been mentioned hy Dancin and it is probably this story of Vaisirili Udayana and Väsavadatta placed in the form of a natyāta in his l'a saludanātyadhara (-nțitarii a), the presentation of such heaiful Bu..dusāra's heart and secured his release from his prisun Thi Tulan for his imprisonment by Bindusāra is not definitely know: Pixit } credits Bindusāra with the suppression of a revol. in Tault It is not unlikely that Subandhu participated in some ich revoll and Bindusära took him captive The case resembles that of Riksted who was first imprisoned by Bindusara's father Can Irazupla and Cānakya and then released to accept the office of a must Subandhu is said to be Bindusara's counsellor The Irjumanjus)?malakal pa wbich describes Bindusara as coming to the thrones a boy (ed T Ganapati Sastri, TSS, part III, p 613) K P Jasda Im penal History of India Sanskrit text, pp 32-33) refers to a Bråh mund as one whose naine begins with sa and he is probably, as suggested by K P. Jayaswal (op cit, pp 72-73) Subandhu ( Part III, p 653) This Sakärädya Dvija or Subandhu is mentioned just al.er th: Vikäradya Dvija which is Visnugupta; both are said to be in Puspapura, the Maurya capital V Raghayan (Subandhu in IHQ, XIX, No 1, 1943, p. 72, note 3) reconstructs the corrupt text thus
af 1920 Farurat fq1217 (facerrat) fare
पर (पुर) पुष्पसमाल्याता(ते) मविनासो | Thus this Subandhu might have been a counsellor of Biodusära As the accession of Caadragupta Maurya to the throne could not have taken place before 326 BC and as Brāhmanical and Buddhist writers unanimously assign to his reign a period of twenty-four years--a period endorsed by Dandin's Avantisundari also (p 183, lincs 18-19, "HEEFT MET H11a fazifa. Fuif . fruft चतुर्यि गतिवर्षाणि मौर्य लक्ष्मी ) hrs son Bindusara could not have come to the throne before 302 BC His reign must have terminated before 269 B C if the king Magas mentioned in the thirteenth Rack Edict of his son Aŝoka really died in 253 BC Puranic writers give a period of twentyfive years for the reign- period als assigned by Dandin in his Avantisundarı (p 18 line 1, "qiqraídafanfarrgarit farger, aftal 1577."), the Burmese tradition allots to him a period of twenty-seven years, while ceylonese chroniclers fix the length of his reign at twenty-eight years If se accept the Cantonese date for Buddha's nirvana (486 BC) to 273 BC. then Biodusāra must have reigned from 300 BC to 273 BC The Greek references put his name as Amitrochates, a corruption of Amitragbatin (the slayer
