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the earliest, towards the end of Vikrama year 1197A. D. 1141 (p. 18).
We have seen, on the authority of the colophons which were not available to Dr. Bühler that the victory over Malava took place between the last months of V. S. 1191 and the first months of V. S. 1192-A. D. 1135-36. Accepting the interval of two or three years which Dr. Bühler assumes we may place the completion of the grammar at the earliest, towards the end of the Vikrama year 1195-A. D. 1139.
In the opinion of Dr. Bühler, both the Kosas were completed before Jayasimha's death (p. 18), so also the first fourteen cantos of the S. D. K. (p. 19). The whole poem in its present form, however, cannot have been completed before V. S. 1220-A.D.1164 (p. 19). The Kāvyānuṣāsana and the Chhandonuṣāsana were probably written in the beginning of the rule of Kumārapāla (pp. 19-36). Dr. Bühler, however, is not correct in assuming that there are no compliments to the king in the illustrations of the C. S. (p 36); for, as we have seen, both Jayasimha and Kumārapāla have been praised in the Chhandonuṣāsana; especially the latter. There are about four references to Jayasimha and about fortynine to other Chalukya kings, most of which refer to Kumārapāla who is mentioned under his own name (e. g. pp. 4, 14, 16 etc.), as the son Siddharāja-meaning of course, successor to Siddharāja (pp. 11, 12, 14 etc.), and also as a descendent of Bhima (p. 4. etc.).
To the early part of Kumarapala's reign belong also numerous supplements to both the great Samskṛta Kosas and the text of Rayaṇavali, or Deṣināmamālā. To
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