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belonging to the Licchavi clan, in or about the year 308.1 In ancient times, the Licchavis of Vaiśāli had been the rivals of the kings of Pāķaliputra, but Candragupta was now elevated through his Licchavi connection from the rank of a local chief.
The Nepal inscriptions point out that there were two distinct houses, one of which, known as the Thakuri family, is mentioned in the Vamśāvalī, but is not recorded in the inscriptions; and the other was the Licchavi or the Suryavamsi family which issued its charters from the house or palace called Mānagrha and uniformly used an era with the Gupta epoch.
I V. A. Smith, Early History of India (4th Ed.), p. 295. 2 Fleet, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. II, p. 135.
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