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Kanauj destroyed by him was the very Rajyapála, mentioned in the present inscription and in the Jhûsî copper-plate. As indicated by Dr. Iultzsch, ante, vol. I, p. 219, we have hitherto known nothing certain of the kings of Kanauj between A. D. 948 and 1097. If my suggestions are approved of, we have now at least the names of three kings of Kanauj, who together must have ruled approximately from about A. D. 980 to about A. D. 1040.- About Arjuna's father Yuvarâja the author of our inscription has nothing to say.
of the second part of the inscription it will, I think, be sufficient to give an abstract of the contents. The last verse translated above told us that to Vikramasimha belonged the town of Chadobha, evidently the place now called Dubkund which at the time must have been noted for its trade; and in continuation of it the verses in lines 32-39 give the genealogy of the two Jaina traders Rishi and Då hada, on whom Vikramasimha had conferred the rank of sreshthins' in that town, and one of whom is mentioned afterwards among the founders of the temple. Both were sons of Jayadeva and his wife Yašomati, and grandsons of the freshthin Jasůka, who is described as the head of a family or guild of merchants which had come from Jayasa pur, a town which I am unable to identify.
Lines 39-48 then contain an account of some Jaina sages, the last of whom, Vijayakirti, not only composed this inscription, but also by his religious teaching incited the people to build the temple at which the inscription was afterwards engraved. The first sage spoken of, an ornament of the Låta vågata gaña, is the Guru Devasena. His son was Kulabhúshaņa; and his son again was Durla bhasenasuri. From him sprang the Guru Sântishena who, in a sabhá held before the king Bhojadeva, defeated hundreds of disputants who had assailed Ambarasena and other learned men. And his son was Vijayakîrti.
Of the founders of the temple lines 48-51 mention by name the Sådhu Da hada whose genealogy has already been given, Kukeka, Sarpața, Devadhara, Mahî. chandra, and Lakshmana; but others also, who are not named, are said to have ren. dered assistance.
The prose passage, commencing in line 54, records that the Maharajadhiraja Vi. kramasimha, for the building of the temple and for keeping it in good repair, as well as for purposes of worship, assigned (a tax of) one vimsopaka on each goni (of grain ?), and gave a piece of land in the village of Mahachakra, capable of being sown with four gonis of wheat, and a garden with a well to the east of Raja kadraha : and that he moreover provided a certain amount of oile for lamps and for anointing the bodies of holy men.-I can find no names like Mahachakra and Rajakadraha anywhere near Dubkund on the maps at my disposal.
After the usual appeal to future rulers to keep the above donations intact, lines 60-61 give the names of the writer and of the engraver, already mentioned; and the inscription closes with a date, the European equivalent of which I have given above.
18 See Jacobi's edition of Bhadrabahu's Kalpasútra, p. 107: Sreshthirah Sridevatadhyasita-sauvarna patta-bhakituttumangah.
16 'l he original has the compound kara-ghotiko-dragam, the first word of which I am unable to explain properly.
