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(Ujjain); and, in the west, Varaha or Jayavardha,' in the territory of the Sauryas. It is to be remarked that, of the two kings Indrayadhs and Srivallabha, one or the other is specified in the passage as the son of a king Krishna. Bat we determine the application of the passage without taking that point into account either way.
When this passage was first brought to notice, the translation that was put forward was" when Indrayudha was ruling over the North ;- when Srivallabha, the son of king Krishna, was governing the South," etc. And I suggested that Srivallabha was “perhaps the Râshtrakůta king Gôvinda II., the son of Kțishna I."3
Subsequently, however, it booame plain, in the first place, that the biruda Srivallabha is not identical with the appellation Vallabha, which is the only name of that kind that we have for Govinda II., and in the second place, that Govinda II. did not actually reign. And then, as the word meaning " son of king Kộishộs" may be construed at least as well with the word that gives as the name of Indrayadha as it may with the word that gives ns the name of Srivallabha, I abandoned that view and transferred the words "son of king Kfishna " to Indrayudha, and took the passage as referring to Govinda III., son of Dhruva, and as establishing the date of A D. 783-84 for him.
There is nothing inherently impossible, in the way of allotting the date of A.D. 783-84 to Govinda III.; except that it would perhaps give him too long a reign,- at least thirty years,
1 The original passage has jaya-yuté vfrå Vardhé; and Dr. Peterson considered (Fourth Report on Sanskrit MSS., Index of Authors, p. 43, and note), that the meaning is, not the victorious and brave Vardha," but "the brave Jayavaráhu,"- just as the name of Vatsargja is expressed in the preceding line by Vata-ddi-rdje. It is not possible to settle that point off-band, either way. Bat, in sapport of Dr. Peterson's view, we may quote two other names in which wardha is found as the termination. One is Adivarába, # name of Bhojndeva of Kansoj, which occurs in verse 22 of the Gwalior inscription of A.D. 875 or 876 (Ep. Ind. Vol. I. pp. 155, 1568). The other is Dbaranivardha, which we meet with most notably in the case of a Chapa prince, with the date of A.D. 914, whose residence was Vardbamion, and who was ruling the territory round HaddAll on the south-east of the abovementioned Wadhwan in the Jhalvad division of Kathidwâr (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. pp. 194, 195); and it is not impossible that, in this prince, we have a descendant of the Varaba or Jayavarkha of A.D.783-84, though his pedigreo is not carried back beyond a certain Vikramarka who would have to be placed, roughly, about A.D. 826.It may be noted here that the name Dharantvarábs seems to have been rather s favourite one. We meet with it again in the case of a prinoe referable roughly to about A.D. 925, in the Bulandshahr plate of A.D. 1176 or 1177 (see Prof. Kielhorn's List of the Inscriptions of Northern Indis, above, Vol. V. Appendix, p. 25, No. 170), and again in the case of a prince who was contemporaneous with a B&shtrakata king or prince named Dhavals who held the country round Hatondi in Marwår just before A.D. 997 (see ibid. p. 9, No. 53). We perhaps have the same
Arabs in the case of a king or prince, of uncertain date but apparently referable to "& period not long anterior to the Mubammadan invasion," who ruled more to the east, in the Jaunpur district, North-West Provinces (Jour. Beng. As. Soe. Vol. VII. pp. 635, 636); but, bere dharan may be a mistake or misreading for dharaniria as the accusative with santhayasenija-guņair, and in that case the name is simply Varába. We certainly, however, have Dharanivarába as a biruda of some princes, of the sixteenth century A.D., who claim descent from the Eastern Chalukya king Kulóttunga I. (Report of the Government Epigraphist for 1899-1900, p. 16). And apparently we have it again as a biruda of one or other of the kings of Vijayanagars in a record of A.D. 1528 (Ep. Cars. Vol. III., Sr. 2).
Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 142. For the text, see now, preferentially, Peterson's Fourth Report on Sanskrit MSS, Extracts, p. 176. Loc. cit. note 3.
• And, on this point, see now, more fully, page 170 ff. above. The text rons-uttandi pdt-Vindrdyudha-admni Krishna-aripa-j& Srinallabhd dakshindon. We know that Dhruva was a son of Kfishna I. And, now that we know what we did not know until recently, namely, that Srivailabhn was one of his leading biridas,- it is easy enough to say that the words "Bon of king Krishna ” were meant to qualify the Srivallabha of the passage, and not the other person. But it is impossible to say, simply from the text itself, whether Krishna-ntipa-jd was intended to be in apposition with the locative which immediately precedes it, or with the locative which immediately follows it, and it is fairly arguable that, Srivallabhs being complete appellation in itself, whereas Indrayudhade man is an adjective rather than a noun, the latter wants something, namely, the next following word, to complete its meaning.
Dyn. Kan. Distrs. p. 394 f., and see note 1 on p. 395.
