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fled and he ordered his ministers, Sankh and Lakhit, to prepare caul¬ 
drons of boiling oil and to throw into them all who turned from battle. 
Sudhanya had gone to take leave of his mother and wife, and the latter 
detained him in love. He was late in joining his father, who ordered 
him to be thrown into a cauldron of oil, but he came out of the seething 
fluid unscathed, entered the fray and perished. I think we cannot 
accept the identification of Champakapuri with Set Mahet, as the capital 
of Kosala in the days of Yudishthir and the Mahabharata. The capital 
of Hansadliwaj was probably Bhagalpur in Bengal. 
Sravasti emerges into full light in Buddha’s lifetime about 500 
B. C. We then find Prasenajit, son of Aranemi Brahmadatta, ruling 
here as king of Kosala. He was probably of about the same age as Bud¬ 
dha. He was twice married. His first wife was Varshika, a Kshatriya 
princess, by whom he had a son named Jeta. His second marriage was 
probably a mesalliance. The woman whom he married Mallika, was not 
a Kshatriya. By her the king had a son Virudhaka who succeeded him. 
She was also probably mother of Seger Sandalitu, a son of Prasenajit, 
who is said to have been elected ruler of Tibet and to have been the first 
king of that country. 
The marriage of Prasenajit and Mallika was an event of much 
importance and, being the origin of one of the most important events in 
Buddha’s life, must be noticed here. The Sakya Mahanaman of Kapi- 
lavastu was Buddha’s paternal uncle and of course a Kshatriya. He 
brought Chandra, the orphan daughter of a Brahman steward, to live 
in his house and help his aged wife. She is said to have been in the 
habit of weaving pretty garlands of flowers and so Mahanaman called 
her Mallika, the ‘ wreath-girl.’ I think it not unlikely that the name 
betrays a connection with the Mallas, and that the story about the 
garlands is merely a fabula e nomine. Anyhow, one day Prasenajit came 
to Kapilavastu during a hunting excursion, saw her in Malianaman’s 
garden, fell in love with her and eventually married her. The fruit 
of this union was Virudhaka. At the same time Prasenajit’s jpurohita 
was presented with a son, Ambharisha, who became a close friend of the 
young prince. On one occasion, when the two youths were on a hunt¬ 
ing expedition together, they came to Kapilavastu, and entered the 
Sakyas’ park. The offended Sakyas spoke of Virudhaka as the son 
of a slave, alluding to his mother’s origin, a Brahman attendant in a 
Kshatriya household, and Virudhaka was so incensed that he vowed to 
exterminate the Sakyas after his father’s death. When Virudhaka 
ascended the throne, he organized an expedition against the Sakyas of 
Kapilavastu, but Buddha went out of Sravasti and stopped his advance, 
as will be explained hereafter. The threat was, however, executed 
