[3] lation of 951 years on an older tradition of 836 years:- (1) Parikshit was born in the year of the Bhârata war and he was installed in the sixteenth year of his age. So, a period of fifteen years elapsed from his birth to his corona- tion.
... .... ... (2) A period of 836 years elapsed from the coronation of Parikshit to that of Mahâpadma Nanda. ..... ... ..... ... ... ... (3) The writer of the above lines ascri- bed a period of hundred years for the Nine Nandas ... ... .. ... 15 years. 836 years. 100 years. 951 Years So that, the total of 951 years is the period that elapsed between the birth of Parikshit to the coronation of Chandra- gupta, who succeeded the Nandas immediately. It is evident, thus, that the Vâyupurâna means by Mahâdeva not Mahâ- padma Nanda, as misinterpreted by later Purânic writers, but Chandragupta the Mourya. that a 3 Thus, we know, without the least doubt period of 951 years elapsed from the Bhârata war to the coronation of Chandragupta. Now, I have shown in the body of the work from Jain sources, that the coronation of Chandragupta took place exactly in 312 B. C. This date
