Political History of Ancient India - from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty

H. C. R. C. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION In placing the fourth edition of the Political History of Ancient India in the hands of students of Indian Antiquities the author takes the opportunity of expressing his grateful thanks to scholars and explorers who have made accessible the rich stores of ancient learning and the priceless memorials of vanished glory that hitherto lay hidden beyond the ke [...] H. C. R. C. EXTRACTS FROM THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION A new edition of the Political History of Ancient India from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty is placed before the public. [...] H. C. R. C. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The object of the following pages is to sketch the political history of Ancient India from the accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta Dynasty. [...] But the excellent historian failing to find sober history in bardic tales ignored the period immediately succeeding "the famous war waged on the banks of the JumAa between the sons of Kurn and the sons of Pio:Kin " and took as his starting point the middle of the seventh century B. C. The aim of the present writer has been to sketch in outline the dynastic history of Ancient India including the [...] 34.4 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA Yavanmaritiin.' In the.1118hkindhyd Sugriva places the country of the Yavanas and the cities of the Sakas between the country of the 'Curtis and the Madras and the Himalayas.