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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
As regards the king's own descent, we have here the following line of sovereigns presented to us, who in verse 2) are said to have been born in a family which derived its origin from the moon, and which from other souroes we know to be the Ohandrella, or Ohandella, or Chandratreya family :(1.) Kirtivarman, who defeated Karna and evidently, by doing so, restored the
independence of the (Chandella) kingdom (v. 8). (2.) Sallakshaņa, who is said to have taken away the fortune of the Malavas
and Ohedis (v.4). (8.) Jayavarmadera (v.4). (4.) Prithvivarman (v. 3). (B.) Madana (v. 8). (6.) Paramardin (v. 6). (7.) Trailokyavarman, who freed the country from the dominion of the Turush.
kas (v.7). (8.) Vira (vv. 8 and 9), or, as he is called in line 18, Viravarman.
The Karna' mentioned in the above, whose defeat by Kirtivarman is related also in line 16 of the fragmentary inscription from Mahoba, edited by Dr. Hultzsch in Zeitschrift D. Morg. Ges., vol. XL, p. 49 (Archeologioal Survey of India, vol. XXI, plate xxi), and apparently in an insoription from Kalaħjar (16., p. 89, verse 8), is the famous Chedi king of that name who ruled about the middle of the 11th century A. D., and whose defeat by Kirtivarman, or rather by Kirtivarman's friend and general' Gopala, is referred to in the introductory soene of the play Prabodhachandrodaya. And the Tarushkas mentioned in connection with Trailokyavarman are the Mubam. madan invaders whom we know to bave defeated Paramardin and to have taken Kalañjar in A.D. 1202.
The inscription is dated (in lines 14 and 15), in words and figures, in the Vikrama year measured by the seas (7), the moon (1), the fires (8), and the moon (1), ...., in the Vikrama year 1817, on Thursday, the 18th of the bright balf of Vaibakha, while the Rauta, the illustrious Jetana (R), was in office, in the reign of Viravarman. The possible equivalents for Vikrama 1817, Vaisakha sukla 18, would be :
for the northern current year-Tuesday, 6th May, A.D. 1960; for the northern expired or southern current year-Sunday, 26th April, A. D. 1960; for the southern expired year-Thursday, 14th April, A. D. 1261, when the 18th tilki of the
bright halt ended 21 h. 46 m. after mean sunrise. The true date accordingly is Thursday, 14th April, A. D. 1261, and the Vikrama year mentioned in the inscription must be taken to be the southern expired year.
Yor Karna we have the date Chedi 798=A.D. 1049 (Indian Antiquary, vol. XVII, p. 915); for Kirtivarman to dato Vikrama 1164=A.D. 1008 (ib., vol. XVIII, p. 388). Karpa u also defeated by Bhimadova I. of Aphil wild, A.D. 1081 - 1063, by the Chalukya Boma vana I., A.D. 1040-1089, and by Udayaditya of Malene, for whom we have the certain date A.D. 1080
I follow here the sathority of the commentator of the Prabodhachandrodaya. Judging from the wording of the text, I should say that Gopala ww an ally of Kirtirarman, but I am not able to identify him with any prince known to me. I may add here that all the above date prove that the Prabodhachandrodaya ww composed during the second half of the 11th ountory A.D. Dot, m stated in English and German handbooka, towards the end of the 19th century. (Compare now Also Dr. Hultssh's mount, ante. Pp. 317-233, where the Mahobl insoription, mentioned above, bu boon toedited. .B.J
• Sir H. M. Elliot's History of India, vol. II, p. 381.
