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... obtained by their valour". 3 The implication is "that their home was away from the Bhagirathi (Gariga) but that they extended their power as far as the valley of that river". 4 Another king, Virasena, who has left numismatic and epigraphic traces, is believed to have been a Nāga with his capital at Mathura and with sovereignty also over Bulandshahr, Etah and Farrukhabad districts as well as ...

... 600-601 Vikramāditya of Ujjayinī, 481, 501-3,601,602 Vikramaputra, 502 Vincent, Father Hugues, v Vindhyasakti, 11, 12, 13,192,522 Vipāśa (Hyphasis, Beas), 175 Virasena, 594 Virgil: Georgics. 174 Vishnu, 142 Vishnu Purāna, 10, 11,91, 103, 105, 106, 107, 204,206.274,522 Vishnu-dhvaja, 398 Vishnugupta. 486,487,494 Vishnukada Chutukulānda ...

... (558-530 B.C.) and ending with Darius III who was defeated by Alexander in 330 B.C. In the immediate post-Aśokan period from 914 B.C. onwards when the Mauryan empire got fragmented, tradition posits Virasena, one of Aśoka's successors, to have set up as an independent ruler in Gandhāra. Under his descendants this province is likely to have continued as an independent kingdom to 802 B.C. and beyond. ...

... Maurya or after Aśoka. The known disintegration of the empire on Aśoka's death seems the right milieu, particularly in view of the tradition transmitted by Tāranātha that a "successor of Aśoka, Virasena by name, set up at Gandhāra" 2 and even more in view of what scholars call "the Mauryan passage" in Patanjali. Bali Nath Puri 3 writes apropos of it: "Commenting on the Sutra Jivikārthe cāpanye ...