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III. Historical Position – 85 In accordance [50] with the Buddha Era of 483 B.C. Geiger presents the chronicle tables of the kings of Ceylon and Magadha as below: Ceylon B.C. India B.C. 1. Vijaya 483-445 1. Ajātasattu 491-459 Interregnum 445-444 2. Udayabhadda 459-443 2. Paṇḍu Vāsudeva 444-414 3. Anuruddha and Muṇḍa 443-435 4. Nāgadāsaka 435-411 3. Abhaya 414-394 5. Susunāga 411-393 Interregnum 394-377 6. Kālāsoka 393-365 7. Ten sons of Kālāsoka 365-343 4. Paṇḍuka Abhaya 377-307 8. Nine Nanda brothers 343-321 9. Candagutta 321-297 5. Muṭasiva 307-247 10. Bindusāra 297-269 6. Devānampiya Tissa 247-207 11. Dhammāsoka 269- 232 The immediate successor of king Vijaya is said to have been Paṇḍuvāsa 133 or Paṇḍuvāsudeva 134 who was the youngest brother of Vijaya and reigned for thirty years. The change of the Dīpavaṁsa name Paṇḍuvāsa into Paṇḍuvāsudeva must have been purposely done in the later chronicle Mahāvaṁsa, the author of which seems to have been somehow acquainted with the name of Paṇḍuvāsudeva, king of Vaṅga and Kaliṅga, mentioned in the Mahābhārata in connection with the military campaign of Bhīma. 135 But the earlier name 133 Dīpavaṁsa, X, 2. 134 Mahāvaṁsa, VIII, 10. 135 Mbh., Sabhā P., Chap. 34, v. 11 (Vaṅgavāsī Edn.).
III. Historical Position – 86 Paṇḍuvāsa meaning the pale-robed one would seem more appropriate in view of the account given in the Mahāvaṁsa of his arrival in Ceylon with a retinue of thirty-two followers, all in the guise of Indian wandering ascetics (paribbājakaliṅgavā). The later chronicle supersedes the earlier one in mentioning the mouth of the river Mahākandara 136 as the landing place of Paṇḍuvāsudeva and his retinue. 137 From this place they are said to walk down to Upatissagāma, a locality in a suburb of Anurādhapura. Another happy coincidence is devised for a critical juncture when a suitable princess was needed to be the queen of Paṇḍuvāsa. The princess supplied is a Śākya maiden called Kaccānā or Bhaddakaccānā who arrived on the island precisely with a retinue of thirty-two maidens. The story of matrimonial alliance of the royal house with a Śākya royal house of a kingdom founded on the southern bank of the Ganges, was thought to be an attractive prelude to a course of events leading to the establishment of the Buddhist faith in the island. The foundation of a new Śākya territory on the southern bank of the Ganges needed a plausible explanation, [51] and it was found in the historical tradition of the massacre of the Śākyas by Viḍūḍabha the usurper king of Kośala in the last year of the Buddha’s life. 138 136 Mahāvaṁsa, VIII, 12. According to Geiger, it was probably a small stream to the north of Mannar. 137 Ibid., VIII, 12. 138 Mahāvaṁsa, VIII, 18-19.
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