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period of Uddyana about 630 to 600 B. C. If we take all the recorded 

 names of the different authorities, then the number of generations will 

 be 24, which will place the close of the dynasty in B. C. 440, and 

 fix the reign of Uddyana in 570 to 540 B. C. As Udayana is repre- 

 sented by the Buddhists to have been a contemporary of Buddha, this 

 date may be accepted as wonderfully accurate for so remote a period 

 of Indian History. 



282. Kosambi is mentioned in the Bamayana, the earliest of the 

 Hindu Poems, which is generally allowed to have been composed 

 before the Christian era. The story of Uddyana, King of Kosambi, is 

 referred to by the poet Kali Dasa in his Megha-duta, or " Cloud messen- 

 ger," when he says that Avanti (or Ujain) is great with the number of 

 those versed in the tale of Udayana," Now Kali Dasa flourished shortly 

 after A. D. 500. In the Vrihat Katha, of Somadeva, the story of Udayana 

 is given at full length, but the author has made a mistake in the 

 genealogy between the two Satdnikas. Lastly, the kingdom of Kosambi, 

 or Kosdmba Mandala, is mentioned in an inscription taken from the 

 gateway of the fort of Khar a which is dated in Samvat 1092, or A. D. 

 1035, at which period it would appear to have been independent of 

 Kanoj. Kosambi, the capital of Vatsa Rajah, is the scene of the pleas- 

 ing drama of Ratndvali, or the " Necklace," which was composed in 

 the reign of King Harsha Deva, who is most probably the same as 

 Harsha Vardhana of Kanoj, as the opening prelude describes amongst 

 the assembled audience " princes from various realms recumbent at his 

 feet." This we know from Hwen Thsang to have been true of the 

 Kanoj Prince, but which even a Brahman could scarcely have asserted 

 of Harsha Deva of Kashmir. The date of this notice will therefore lie 

 between 607 and 650 A. D. 



283. But the name of Uddyana, King of Kosambi, was perhaps 

 even more famous amongst the Buddhists. In the Mahawanso, 

 which was composed in the 5th century A. D., the venerable Yasa is 

 said to have fled from " Vaisdli to Kosambi just before the assembly 

 of the second Buddhist Synod. In the Lalita Vistara, which was 

 translated into Chinese between 70 and 76 A. D., and which must 

 therefore have been composed not later than the beginning of the Chris- 

 tian era, Udayana Vatsa, son of Satanika, King of Kosambi, is said 

 to have been bom on the same day as Buddha. In other Ceylonese 

 books, Kosambi is named as one of the 19 capital cities of ancient 



