The Shishunagas

Shishunaga was an Amatya.  He destroyed the glory of the Pradyotas of Avanti.  After a successful reign of sixteen years, he was succeeded by his son Kalashoka to reign for the next twenty eight years. The dagger thrust into his throat in the neighbourhood of his city.  The ten sons succeeded him and ruled from Pataliputra for the next twenty two years simultaneously. By then, century and a half had passed by since the Parinirvana of the Buddha.