Indian Antiquary Vol 28

SR No.: 032520
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 356
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 40 MB

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MARCH, 1899.)
SOME MEDIÆVAL KINGS OF MITHILA.
ON SOME MEDIÆVAL KINGS OF MITHILA.
BY G. A. GRIERSON, PH.D., C.I.E. IN Vol. XIV. of the Indian Antiquary, pp. 182 and ff., there appeared an article from my pen
1 on Vidy&pati and his Contemporaries. There were some doubtful points as to the date of the poet, which were further discussed by Dr. Eggeling, when dealing with MS. No. 2864, in Part IV. of his Catalogue of the MSS. in the India Office Library. In connexion with his remarks, I published in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal a facsimile of the grant by which King Siva-simha of Mithila gave the poet the village of Bisapi, which is dated L. S. 292, i, e., A. D. 1400-01.
I have lately been studying the Purusha-pariksha of Vidy&pati in an edition published at Darbhanga in Saka 1810 by Pandit Chandra (or Chanda) Jha, whom I know to be one of the most learned men in that part of India. It was printed under the auspices of the late Mabârâja of Darbhanga at the Raj Press. In an Appendix Chandra Jhà gives extracts from the Kirtti-latá and from the Lékhanávali of Vidyâpati which contain a great deal of important historical information, written by a contemporary of the facts which he narrates. I believe that Mr. Bendall has lately discovered a complete copy of the former work in the Nepal Library, and that it will be eventually examined and described by Pandit Hara-Prasad-Sastri. The following notes, taken from Chandra-Jha's Appendix, will show the importance of both the works dealt with by him, and encourage others more fortunately situated than myself to investigate the history of mediæval Mithila.
To get dates A. D. add 1109 to the L. S. dates.
In L. S. 217 = 1926 A. D.'Hara-simba-dova abandoned the kingdom of Tirhut and went into the Nepal jungles. The Emperor of Delhi then conferred the kingdom on Kamobvara Thakkura, who was the founder of the famous sugauna family. He lived in a village called oïni. His brother Harsaņa shakkura lived at Sugauna. He had three sons. I give the genealogies of the principal descendants of two of them. The whole tree is in my article in the Indian Antiguary already mentioned.
Kâmêávar Thakkura
Bhôgiávara, d. L. S. 251 = 1360 A. D.
Bhava-simha Gaņēsvara, d. L. S. 252
Déva-simha, d. L. S. 293 Kirtti-simba
Siva-simha, married seteral wives. A famous one was
Lakhim& Thakurain. The kings of Bhava Simha's line all took the additional title of Bapa-narayana. This is important. Siva-simba is often called only Rupa-narayana. He was Vidyâpati's patron.
Firoz Shah Tughlaq (1351-1887) deposed Kåmêsvara, and gave the throne to his younger son, Bhôgisvara. The date of the latter's accession is not given. He was a friend of Firôz. The Kirtti-latá says: -
Piasahi bhania phirojaśáha sulatána samánala tasu nandana Bhogisvara.' • Friend calling Firoz Shah Sultan honoured his son Bhogiávara.
Gandávara had two sons. Kirtti was the younger, but went to Delhi, and was given the kingdom by the emperor.