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... of Maghā is Pūrva Bhadrapada. Moreover, there is the first king of the Pradyota dynasty to be thought of. The Purānas start this dynasty at once after the Barhadrathas' 1000 years - that is, in (3138-1000=) 2138 B.C. - and thus within the first half of the Pūrva Āshādhā's century from 2177 to 2077 B.C. The first Pradyota had a name and a reputation somewhat like those of the first Nanda, Mahāpadma... errors - unless we follow the famous traditional commentator Śrīdhara in taking the passage to mean in condensed form: "The darkness of the Kaliyuga will go on increasing in the reign of King Pradyota during the Seven Rishis' conjunction with Piirva Āshadha, It will increase still more by the time Nanda begins to rule. " But the rightness or wrongness of the Vishnu's and Bhagavata 's indications... 10th if Maghā is reckoned as the 1st, and how their placing of Nanda 1015 years after Parīkshit's birth bring us, according to the dynastic durations, to the 15th year of the reign of the first Pradyota king, Chanda Mahāsena, whose name as well as ill-fame could lead to an identification with Nanda Mahāpadma in the Purānic pundits' mind. The Kaliyuga's "magnitude", therefore, could more comprehensively ...

... striking in the phrase on the Gupta-kings is that they are collectively linked with "the Magadhas", like all the 8 other dynasties set forth in their particulars in regular sequence: Bārhadratha, Pradyota, Śiśunāga, Nan-da, Maurya, Śunga, Kānva, Āndhra. No other post-Āndhra line is thus linked by the Purānas. And what is notable about Visvasphani who is called "magnificent" and "mighty" and described ...

... C, 525 Prabhākara, 499 Prabhākaravardhana of Thaneswar, 487 Prachetas, 78, 96 Prāchlnabarhisha, 78, 96, 122, 123 Prāchya, 222 Prāchyas, 244 Pradhan, S. N., 4, 257 Pradyota, 107 Pradyotas, 5, 9, 69, 93, 225 Prājapati (Brahmā), 580 Pramnai (Pramanikas), 322 Prārjunās/Prajjunikas, 424, 427, 573 Prasad, Beni, 547 Prasii/Prasioi, 63, 114 ...

... Buddhist 218 years as the interval between that year and the accession of Aśoka. In the Purānas Ajātaśatru is the 6th Śiśunaga king. As this dynasty succeeds the Pradyotas, they start after the Bārhadrathas' 1000 years and the Pradyotas' 138: namely, in (3138-1138=) 2000 B.C. The reign-periods of the 5 pre-Ajātaśatru Śiśunagas total (40+ 36+26+40+38=) 180 years. Adding Ajātaśatru's 8, we get 188... be successive post-Maurya lines as presented in the Purānas in their main statements. But these very historians 8 who make much of these statements do not hesitate in connection with the earlier Pradyotas and Śiśunaga dynasties to declare that "the Purānas give a distorted account of the political vicissitudes that took place in Magadha after the fall of the Bārhadratha dynasty... and we propose... dynasty-lengths as well as reign-lengths from the birth of Parīkshit in the year of the Bhārata War. The first Magadhan dynasty is of the 22 Bārhadrathas who reign for 1000 years. It is followed by the 5 Pradyotas with their sum of 138 years. Then come the 10 Śiśunagas whose total duration is 362 years. All these numbers make up exactly the 1500 years which are said in some versions - as against 1015, 1050 ...