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fronted SELEUCUS and compelled the latter to concude a treaty. (7) His capital, PALIBHADRĀ was situated 200 miles, west of PRAYĀGA. (8) His surname was PĀLIBHADRA from which the name of the PARIHĀRA RAJPUTS is derived.
We cannot link this CHANDRAGUPTA with the Maurya or the the Gupta dynasty. Justin does not mean that he belonged to a low caste. All he means is that his forefathers were not rulers and did not belong to a royal family. It is not necssary for all the Kșatriyas to be rulers or their relations. Even if Justin's statement implied low caste, neither the Mauryas nor the Guptas were low cast. The Mauryas were a Ksatriya tribe. The Mauryas of PIPPLIVANA were quite famous during the days of Buddha. It is ungrammatical and beseless to say that the Maurya' is derived from Murā. can we identify SANDROCOTTUS with a Gupta ruler on the ground that the Guptas were the KARASKARA (that is, KAKKAR JATS). Dr. Sriram Goyal has established long ago that the Guptas were Brāhmaṇas. 42 So Dr. Jayaswal's contention is no longer tenable. And even if we accept it, that does not yield the result desir Despite differences in the social status, GUJARS, RAJPUTS and JATS belong to the same category anthropoligically. the Jats call themselves Ksatriyas. But even if they are taken to be Sūdras, that does not make them barbers. Se even if the Guptas were KAKKAR JATS, that does not prove them barbers. So the usurper mentioned by Curtius and Diodorus cannot belong to the Gupta dynasty nor has he anything to do with SANDROCOTTUS. The surname PALIBOTHRUS cannot be linked with the Mauryas or the Guptas either.
It has been assumed on the authority of the KALIYUGA-RAJAVRTTANTA' that the SANDRAMES of the accounts is CHANDRA SRI of the ANDHRA dynasty. Chandragupta I, the founder of the Gupta dynasty, was first a soldier and then became a general. He had illegitimate relation with the queen of the old king. He got CHANDRA SRI murdered and became a guardian of the princes. Then he begot a son called Pulomā from the queen who ruled for seven years only in name Samudragupta gathered a band of robbers and usurped throne etc.
The KALIYUGARĀJAVRTTANTA, allegedly a part of the Bhavişyottara purāņa was quoted by T. Narayan Shastri in the Age Of Shankar' for the first time. Then, R. Krishnamachariar quoted it in his ‘History of the classical Sanskrit Literature'. But the verses quoted were not found in any copies of the 'Bhavişyottarapurāņa'. So, Prof. B. S. Upadhyaya of Pilani College corresponded with
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