some contemporaries of Buddha - Pukkusati

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, " Kishore patnaik "

<kishorepatnaik09 wrote:

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> > Pukkusati of Gandhara

> King Pukkusati was a contemporary of Buddha. He had his capital at

> Taxila and was on friendly terms with King Bimbisara of Magadha.

> Bimbisara sent Jivaka to Taxila for his medical education and helped

> when Canda Pajjota waged war against Pukkusati.

> Bimbisara sent his friend an inscribed golden plate with descriptions

> of the Triple gem and various tenets of Buddha's teachings. After

> reading the inscriptions, Pukkusati became a Buddhist monk and went

> to Rajagaha to pay respect to Buddha.

>

>

 

 

The Buddha had taught him a sutra. During the time of Buddha, Gandhara

was a dominant force and Pukkusati or Pushkara sarin ruled this kingdom

from Taksha shila (or Taxila). He had his power spread over Kashmir to

Multan and from Indus down south.

 

However, his connection with Cyrus or Darius as being thought by

historians is rather impossible, even by the standards of accepted

chronology. This is because, the Gandhara was subjugated by Darius by

516 Bce (ref, In the Behis-

tun inscription of Darius, cir. 516 B.C., the Gandharians

(Gadara) appear among the subject peoples of the Achaeme-

nian Empire (see k< Ancient Persian Lexicon and the Texts

of the Achaemenidan Inscriptions " by Herbert Cushing

Tolman, Vanderbilt Oriental Series, Vol. VI)), this chronology is too

cramped.

 

Kishore patnaik

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Canda pradyota of Avanti(or Ujjain) waged a war on Pukkusati. Pukkusati

sent a letter through an amissary to Bimbisara to help but Bimbisara

did not find it politically right to help Pukkusati.

 

Pradyota was rather old by the time of this attack and did not seem to

have won the war. In fact, he could have been crushed to annihilation

but for out break of rebellion in Punjab by a tribe called Pandavas

over Pukkusati. (Essay on Gunadhya p 176, as quoted in Malwa through

the ages, from the earliest times to 1305 A.D. By Kailash Chand Jain)