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placed immediately after Ajatasatru in the Pali chronicles. If 
, = 
place Udayin between Ajatasgatru and Daréaka. Udayin, ac- 
cording to the Vayu, in his fourth year, made Kusumpura 
(Pataliputra), on the southern bank of the Ganges, his capital, 
while, according to Bhasa, in the days of the Darsaka, the 
capital was still at Rajagriiha. 
The reason of the Magadhan marriage of Udayana becomes 
intelligible and also some light is thrown on the above question 
of chronology, if we take into account the political rela- 
tions between the different states of the time. The state 
Avanti. The King of Avanti is called the Mehasana, ‘‘ He of 
the large army "’, in Bhasa, and Chanda, ‘‘the Terrible’’, 
in Buddhist works.! In the latter again we are told that 
must secure the good-will or subjugation of the sovereign of 
the Vatsa® territory. To gain this object he seems to have 
| Rhys Davids, p. 28. 2 Ibid., p. 13. 
In respect of this theory of the dominating position of Avanti, 
I may refer to the order in which the Pradyotas have been placed in the 
Vayu and the subsequent Puranas. These Pradyotas are not Magadhan 
obviously include some of the 
Magadha the Pradyotas seem to have succum 
" e revolt of the Vatsas under Aruni related by Bhasa might 
ave been connected with these political marriages. It is almost con- 
temporaneous with the Magadha alliance. Probably it was fostered by 
the * terrible’ Pradyota or, more likely, by his suecessor. 
