Kharavela: Difference between revisions

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== Background ==

{{defn|The record is partially damaged. It mentions a Yavana king running away in fear and retreating to Mathura. Alain Daniélou writes that Kharavela sacked Gorathagiri (near the [[Barabar Caves|Barabar Hills]]) with a large army and subdued the town of Rajagriha (identified with present-day [[Rajgir]]).<ref name="Alan_2003"/> According to Ananta Prasad Banerji-Sastri, Kharavela expelled members of the [[Ajivika]] sect (a rival of the Jains) from the Barabari caves and mutilated their inscriptions.<ref>{{cite book |author=[[Radha Kumud Mukherjee|Radhakumud Mookerji]] |title=Asoka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXyftdtE1ygC&pg=PA206 |year=1995 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0582-8 |pages=206–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=[[Arthur Llewellyn Basham]] |title=History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas, a Vanished Indian Religion |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiGQzc5lRGYC&pg=PA158 |year=1951 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1204-8 |pages=158–159 }}</ref>}}

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{{defn|Parts of this record are lost. Kharavela sends his troops to Uttarpatha (the north), and subdues the king of Magadha. K. P. Jayaswal identified Bahasmita with Pushyamitra Shunga,  but [[Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri]] discredits this theory. Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya believes that Bahasatimita may have been a king of [[Kosambi|Kaushambi]], and his rule might have extended to Magadha as well.<ref name="Sudhakar_1974"/> This section of the inscription mentions a "Ka[li]ngajinam" taken by Nanda king in the past and he brought it back to Kalinga. Kharavela built a settlement of a hundred masons with a tax exemption.<ref name="sdstate_inscription"/>}}

=== Succession ===

Kulke and Rothermund state Kharavela's empire state that the history of ancient India is unclear including the times after Ashoka and Kharavela. Given the lack of major inscriptions by his successors, they surmise that the Kharavela empire likely disintegrated soon after his death.<ref name="Hermann_2004">{{cite book |author1=Hermann Kulke |author2=Dietmar Rothermund |title=A History of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RoW9GuFJ9GIC&pg=PA101 |year=2004 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-32920-0 |page=101 }}</ref> A little is known about the next two generations of kings - Vakradeva (a.k.a. [[Kudepasiri]] or Vakadepa) and Vadukha - but through the minor inscriptions at Udayagiri.<ref name="Hermann_2004"/>