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106 INDIA AS DESCRIBED IN EARLY TEXTS
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or founded their territories. The Bhojas were, even according to the Aitareya and Satapatha Brahmanas, one of the septs of the Satvatas. Bhima, the king of Vidabbha (modern Berar), was no doubt a Bhoja king. The Sarabhanga Jātaka 1 preserves the tradition of the powerful king Dandaki of the kingdom of Dandaka in the Vindhya region, who had his capital at the city of Kumbhavati. The sovereignty of Dandaka was established over the whole of the Vindhya region, extending as it did from Vidabbha to Kalinga. Kalinga, the king of Kalinga, Aṭṭhaka, the king of Atthaka and Bhimaratha, presumably the king of Vidabbha, acknowledged his supremacy. The kingdom of Dandaki was utterly destroyed by a natural catastrophe. Dandaki or Daṇḍakya was undoubtedly a Bhoja king. In the fifth and thirteenth Rock Edicts of Asoka, the Rathikas, Bhojakas and Pitinikas, all of whom may be supposed to have belonged to the Satvata race, are mentioned as semi-independent ruling peoples of Aparanta. In the Hāthigumphā Inscription of Kharavela the Rathikas and Bhojakas are introduced in such a manner as to leave no room for doubt that they were ruling chiefs of the Vidyadhara settlements (Vijādharādhivāsā).
1 Jātaka, v, pp. 134, 267ff., Majjhima, i, p. 378; Mahāvastu, iii, p. 383f.
2 Arthasästra, Chamasastri's Tr., p. 12.
