Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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494 STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATÍ SÚTRA [Ch. VIII son of Satānika, still farther in the south there was the kingdom of Avantī of Mahāsenal with its capital at Ujjayini. To the far west lay the country of Sindhu-Sauvīra with its capital at Vītībhaya under the rulership of king Udāyana and his nephew Keśikumāra in succession.
In the north there lay the republican states of the Licchavīs of Vaiśāli and of the Mallakīs of Pāvā and Kusinärā.
It appears that the royal family of Kaušāmbi and that of Cetaka, the president-king of Vaišāli were united by a matrimonial alliance, as it is revealed by the fact that queen Męgavatī, the wife of king Satānīka, the mother of king Udayana of Kaušāmbi was the daughter of Cetaka."
Similar relations were established by him with the royal houses of Sindhu-Sauvīra and Magadha by offering his other two daughters, Prabhāvati and Cellanā to king Udāyana of Vītībhaya and king Seņiya-Bimbisāra® of Răjagrha respectively.
It is stated in the Avašyaka Cūrni? that Cellanā, the youngest of the seven daughters of king Cetaka of Vaišāli was carried off by king Seņiya-Bimbisāra privately from the female apartment of the palace of the republican president in the presence of his son, Abhaya, born of his queen Sunandā and then she was married by him, King Seniya
In the Bhs king Seņiya of Magadha only once appears together with his queen, Cellanā on the scene laid at the Gunaärlaka Caitya in Rajagrha in connection with his pilgrimage to Lord Mahāvīra to attend his religious discourse delivered there. It is also recorded in the Uttaradhyayana Sūtrao that the lion of kings visited the lion of the houseless ascetics.
14 BhS, 13, 6, 491. Ib, 7, 9, 300-303. 4 Ib, 12, 1, 441. 5 I6, 13, 6, 451. & 16, 1, 1, 4. ? Avasyaka Cūrni, II, p. 165 f. 8 lb, 1, 1, 4.
Uttaràdhyayan, Sutra, 20. 58.