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Event
Date(B.C.)
807
747
711 661 625 582 544 497
Foundation of Sisunaga-dynasty Accession of Sisunaga " " Sisunaga
Ksemavardhana Ksemajita Pras enjita Bimbisara Ajatasatru Udayi (in Patliputra) Darska or Nagadasaka in
Rajagrha
" Aniruddha - Munda Foundation of Nanda -dynasty Accession of Nan divardhana (in Patliputra)
(in Avanti) "1 Mahanandi " Mahapadama Nanda
eight sons of Mahapadma Foundation of Maurya-dynasty (in Magadha ) Accession of Candragupta Maurya (in Magadha)
" " Candragupta, Maurya (In Avanti)
497 481 474
467
456 413 325 322
313
Inconsistencies in Ceylonese Chronology
Some inconsistencies in the chronology described by the Ceylonese chronicles are so obvious that it surprises us how they were accepted as the authoritative sources by the historians. For instance, the Puranic and the Jain chronologies assign 100 and 150 years respectively to the Nanda dynasty, whereas the Mahavamsa ascribes only 22 years to the whole dynasty, and more surprisingly, we find that no place is given to this important dynasty of India in the chronological list supplied by the Dipavamsa (220). Another inconsistency of the Ceylonese chronology is that whereas in the Puranas the king Sisunaga Kakavarna, etc., are enumerated as the predecessors of Ajatasatru, the Ceylonese works enlist them as the successors of Ajāta satru(221). This can be said to be an untolerable blunder from the historical point of view. Besides such inconsis
