Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

Poros assured him of the correctness of the information but added that the king of the Gandaridae was a man of quite worthless character and held in no respect as he was thought to be the son of a barber. [...] Arrian who alone in the opinion of Prof Freeman seems to have had at once the will and the power to exercise a discreet judgment upon the statements of those who went before him does not so much as mention the name of the king or the people the strength of whose army dismayed the veteran troops of Alexander if not Alexander himself. [...] The.illahavainga again disagrees with the Prialkasha and the I'nranas in making the rich Nanda :Maria the last instead of tl= first of the Nandas and follows the Purai as in interpreting Nava Nanda to mean 9 Nandas. [...] As the Barhadrathas were kings of Magadha while the Pradyotas were kings of Avanti Pradyota must have succeeded the Vltihoras and not the Barhadrathas ; and the master of Munika must have been the last Vitihotra king of Avanti and not Riputiajaya the last of the Barhadrathas. [...] But the Puranas give their account of the Pradyotas after the Barhadrathas and before the Saiunagas for the reasons that their rule began after the §aiSunagas had obtained Magadha and ended before the Sai §unagas had ceased to rule and that the §aiSunagas displaced the Prdyotas in Avanti also.