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names. Thus Chandra- Gupta had a birth name, which is not men- 

 tioned ; a local name, Palibothres, or lord of Palibothra, and a royal 

 name, Sandra kottos, which he assumed on his accession to the throne.* 



The Greek name of %ocf>ayao"nvo<s is most probably the Sanskrit 

 ^TT*TT3T*J«r, Saubhdgasena, or chief of the fortunate army, that is, the 

 victorious leader. Yavanadhara means the "keeper of Greeks," or 

 the retainer of Greek troops ; and Durandhara means the " pos- 

 sessor of good qualities" or the "possessor of wealth." Both of 

 these are royal titles which may be compared with those of the 

 Arsacidse of the same period, Philhellenos and E^ergetes. SaubM- 

 gasena and Yavanadhara may be considered as varieties of the same 

 title as the leader of a body of Greeks would of course have been 

 the chief of a fortunate or victorious army. The name of Dhudsen, 

 which is given by Tod, appears to me to be the common colloquial 

 corruption of Dhursen, the chief of a good army, which may also be 

 considered as synonymous with Saubhagasena. 



Now it is curious that all these names refer to the military cha- 

 racter of the chief, which is also ascribed to the founder of the 

 Mayura dynasty in the Eajavali. Ward calls him simply the minis- 

 ter, but both Tod's list and mine more correctly state him to have 

 been the "military minister" of his predecessor. Ferishta mentions 

 that he was the nephew, %d\) jM_y=^, Khwdhdr-zdda, the " sister's 

 son" of Fur, the antagonist of Alexander: but I suspect that he 

 may have mistaken the family name of jyo mur (Mora, Maurya or 

 Mayura) for jj-» Fur. This seems to be the more probable as my 

 list mentions that the throne which he obtained had formerly 

 belonged to his ancestors. It is possible therefore, that Duran- 

 dhara, the "possessor of wealth," or of " good qualities," may be 

 the same as the prince Sampadi the "increase of wealth," or of 

 good qualities, who was the son of Kunala, and the grandson of 

 Asoka Maury a.f 



There is one other fact about Jona which must not be omitted. 

 According to Ferishta, he is said to have been a liberal prince, who 



* Megasthenes in Strabon, XV. Similarly we have Omphis and Taxiles ; the 

 former being most likely the real name, the latter certainly the local one, as lord 

 of Taxila. 



f Burnouf- Bhucklhisme Indien, p. 430. 



