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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this correction. Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar23 too accepts this view. In his book Early History of India !, Vincent Smith24 records that Muktāpida, also known as Lalitaditya. received investiture as king from the emperor of China in 733 A. D. This prince, who is said to have reigned for 36 years ......... inflicted a crushing defeat upon Yasovarman about the year 740 A. D. According to Jacobi, Gaüdavaho verses 827-832 mention certain portents that took place in the world. Among them, V. 829 mentions an eclipse of the sun ; and this, Jacobi states, was visible according to astronomical calculations, on 14th August 733 A. D. In V. 832, he accepts the reading णियय-पय-भंग of a MS. instead of Pandit's-'भूलयाभंग' and this along with the earlier words Furnacêu, are interpreted by him to mean' shaking of his position (1) that was brought about in a moment or temporarily'. This, according to him, obviously refers to the invasion of Lalitāditya against Yašovarman, which must have taken place after he (Yasovarman) had returned from his expedition against the Gauda King.
“The dates25 of Lalitāditya's reign being thus ascertained to be 724 to 760 A. D., Yasovarman's reign may generally be said to cover the second quarter of the 8th century. His defeat by the king of Kashmir will have to be placed in 733 A. D. before which Yaśovarman must have defeated the king of the Gaudas. Yašovarman had sent an embassy to China on his own behalf in 731 A. D. and later when Lalitāditya sent a similar embassy to China in 736 A. D., he claimed Yaśovarman as his ally. This fact shows that Lalitāditya had defeated
23. Bhandarkar-Mälati-Madhava. P. ix. 24. 'Early History of India'. P. 386. 25. 'Gaüļavaho'-Introduction P. ccLviii.