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again Govana (vernes 11-12), who, to judge from Professor Bühler's inscription, began to rule shortly after Saka 1075 (A.D. 1163-4). Govana III. was succeeded by his son, Soideva (verses 13-14), by whom, as will appear below, a donation was made to Changadeva's college in Saka 1128 (wrongly for Baka 1129-A.D. 1207); and Soideva after his death was succeeded by his younger brother Hem&dideva, who is described as a feudatory or general of Simghanadeva and ruler of the country of the sixteenhundred villages' (verses 15-16).
Ohangadeva, the founder of the college, belonged to the Sandilya caméa, of which the inscription (in verses 17-24) enumerates the following members :
(1.) The poet (kavichakravartin) Trivikrama. (2.) His son Bhaskara bhatta, who from king Bhoja received the title of Vi.
dydpati. (3.) His son Govinda, or Govindasarvajña. (4.) His son Prabhakara. (5.) His son Manoratha. (6.) His son, the poet (kapsfoara) Mahesvaracharya. (7.) His son Bhaskara (the astronomer). (8.) His son Lakshmidhara, who by king Jaitrapala was appointed chief
Pandit. (9.) His son Ohangadeva, chief astrologer of king simghana.
As regards these men, there can hardly be a doubt that the kavichakravartin Tri. vikrama, with whom the list opens, is the mahakavi Trivikramabhatta, the author of the Damayanti-katha, who, in the introduction of his work, describes himself as the son of Nemaditya (or Devåditya) and grandson of Sridhara, of the Bandilya pamba, Since his son Bhaskara bhatta lived under Bhojaraja, wbom, with Dr. Bhâu Dajt, I take to be Bboja of Dhard whom we know to have ruled in A.D. 1021, Trivi. krama must have flourished about the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century A. D. Bhaskara, the astronomer, was born in Saka 1086-A.D. 1104-8; and the epoch-year of his Karana-kutíhala is Saka 1105=A. D. 1183-84. His father, Mahesvara, who is described as jyotiroit-lilaka, lived at Vijjalapura, and composed a work called Vritta-bataka. Jaitrapala, by whom Bhaskara's son, Lakshmidhara, was made chief Pandit, ruled from Saka 1113 to Saka 1181-A.D. 1191-1209.
The metrical part of this inscription is followed by a prose passage which records & grant made by Boideva in favour of Changadeva's college in Saka 1128 (or rather 1129), on a date which will be specified below. This grant must of course have been made some time before the inscription itself was composed; for we know from the preceding that the inscription was put up during the reign of the king Simghana, who began to rule in Saka 1181, and at a time when the feudatory Soideva was dead, and had been succeeded by his younger brother Hemadideva Our inscription itself therefore is not dated, but it may have been composed in the first quarter of the 19th century, some time after A.D. 1209-10.
Soideva's grant, spoken of in the preceding paragraph, is dated in the Saka year
See Indian Antiquary, vol. VI, p. 63. The date of the inscription in Bonday, 24th Deormber, A.D. 1091. * Boe Journal Roy. 41. Soc., N. 8., vol. 1, pp. 410, 418; or Siddhanta-Siromani, ziii, 68; Professor Aufruolt'Calalogwe, p. 827; Dr, Peterson's Second Report, p. 181.
