Patna University Readership Lectures 1922. The Glories of Magadha

The author of this very interesting treatise on the glories of Magadha has already established his capacity for useful work by his valuable monograph on the Economic Condition of Ancient India, and not only the general reader but also the expert will find matter for profitable study in his examination of the history of the Magadhan capitals, of the edicts of Asoka, and of the fate of the monasteri [...] At the time of the invasion' of the Macedonian hero, here was a king whose very name and fame, frightened the unconquerable soldiers of Alexander the Great', while the people of the country were considered as the most distinguished in all India. [...] In the fifteenth book of the Athurva- -2ede, in the so-called Vratya book, the Vratya is brought into special relation with. = the piiibschq,/i and laciyadhi faith, is called his harlot, the mitri, (friend) his Magadha; and similarly, the dawn, the earth t?), the lightning, his harlots, /also, (scorn), the thunder, his Magadharn„ A more connected account of the Vriityas is found in the Panchavintsa [...] The story is not only interesting but useful, as it speaks of the progress of the sacrificial fire which represented the advance of Vedic culture, from 1-4-1-10. "The Glories of Magadha 13 the West, the banks of the Saraswati, till the Brahmanas reached the river Stu Miami which they did not crossl. [...] The Nava-Nandas or the Neo-Nandas2 were followed by the Mauryas—Chandragupta, the founder, the Sandracottos of the Greek writers", will) was placed on the throne by Chn4alcya, the author of the first book on Polity, and Atoka, the Ralf, Chakravarti.