Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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widely known play, as the numerous references to it and quotations from it in works of poetics and dramaturgy show."21
The question of the date of Yasovarman is closely linked with that of Kashmirian king Lalitäditya, whose contemporary he was. According22 to the Rajatarangini, Lalitäditya must have come to the throne in 693 A. D. He is recorded to have reigned for 36 years, 7 months and 11 days, between 695 A. D. and 732 A. D. Accordingly, his conquest of Kanauj and destruction of the sovereignty of Yasovarman, if that was really achieved, must have occurred in the first 10 years or so, of the 8th Century, if not earlier. Accordingly, Yasovarman must have reigned in the latter part of the 7th and the first part of the 8th century. As we must suppose that he had finished his own expedition of conquest and slain the king of Gaudas, before he was himself overthrown by Lalitäditya and, as Lalitäditya's victory over him was one of the earliest achievements of that sovereign, it would follow that some considerable portion of his reign must have fallen in the latter part of the 7th century Yasovarman may have had a long reign, beginning from some date anterior to A. D. 693 and ending by some years after A. D. 744. He may have continued to reign as a vassal of Lalitaditya after his subjugation by that king and to reign even after the death of that king". This is Pandit's view.
In his book Ancient Geography of India', General Cunnigham, however, relying on Chinese sources, had adopted a correction of 31 years, so that the accession of Lalitäditya, according to him, falls in A. D. 724. Professor G. Bühler and Professor Max Müller also have accepted
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21. V. Raghavan-Some old lost Rāma Plays' P. 1. 22. Pandit Gaüdavaho-Pp. xcv xcvi also P. LXXXV.
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