Essay name: Bhasa (critical and historical study)
Author: A. D. Pusalker
This book studies Bhasa, the author of thirteen plays ascribed found in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series. These works largely adhere to the rules of traditional Indian theatrics known as Natya-Shastra.
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resolved to depart from this world. He placed his son
Naravahanadatta under the charge of GopÄla
and
proceeded to a precipitous hill with both his queens
;
ascending the top, all the three killed themselves
by falling
down. This occurred in 490 B. C., the same
year that
Pradyota died.'
A short note appears later on dealing with KauÅ›Ämbi,
the capital of the Vatsa kingdom.
Videha. Videha has already been dealt with under
"Mithila."
8 Śūrasena. Śūrasena was one of the sixteen
mahajanapadas, mentioned in Buddhist works. There is
no reference to SÅ«rasena or MathurÄ (its
capital) in the
Vedic literature, but Saurasenoi and Methora
occur in the
Greek accounts. According to the Mahabharata
and the
Puranas, Yadu or Yadava whose tribe
is often mentioned
in the Rigveda along with other tribes was the progenitor
of the ruling family of Sürasena. The
country received
its name from Sura, the father of
Vasudeva and Kunti.
According to the VÄyupurÄṇa, the country was named
after Sūrasena, a son of Satrughṇa, and
later on it passed
into the hands of the Yadavas. SÅ«rasena
corresponds to
the present district of Muttra with the small
states of
Bharatpur, Khiraoli and Dholpur, and the
northern half
of the Gwalior territory. The SÅ«rasenas
continued to be
a notable people up to the time of Megasthenes.
Mathura, the capital of Sürasena, has been dealt
with in a note later on.
SaurÄá¹£á¹ra. SaurÄá¹£á¹ra, the Syrastrene of Ptolemy,
corresponds to modern Kathiawar and other
portions
of Gujarat. In the days of the RÄmÄyaṇa
, SurÄá¹£á¹ra
represented the country from the Indus
to Broach, i. e.,
Gujarat, Cutch and Kathiawar. According
to Hoernle,
SaurÄjya was a synonym of SaurÄá¹£á¹ra. SaurÄá¹£á¹ra
was
included in the Mauryan Empire and was governed
by
2 Bhandarkar, Carm. Lect.,
1 Pradhan, Chronology of India, p. 246.
pp. 48, 53; Cunningham, Anc. Geog, pp. 427-429, 706; Dey, Geog. Dict., pp.
127-128, 197; Law, Geog. Early Bud, pp
. 20-21; Ray Chaudhury, Pol. Hist.
Anc. Ind, 3rd Edn., pp. 97-100. 3 Rgveda
, I. 108. 8; also Pol. Hist. Anc. Ind, 3rd
Edn, p. 97. 4 Cunningham, Anc. Geog, pp
. 427-428. 5 Bhandarkar, Carm. Lect.,
pp. 23-24; Cunningham, Anc.
Geog. pp. 363, 371, 699; Dey, Geog. Dict. p. 183;
Law, Geog. Early Bud, p. 58. 6 JASB
, 1873, p. 105.
