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the gurus or religious teachers under whom the In the present stage of our knowledge of the three kings sat, and appeals to the Vengi grant history of the kings of Valabhi, I do not think it of Vijayanan divarma, as well as to un- advisable to hazard any conjecture as to the counpublished Nepal inscriptions, where a Bhatta- | try of king Bå va and king Bappa, or regardraka Bappa is mentioned. I regret that I have ing their relations to those of Valabhi, though to enter my protest against this explanation. For Hiwen Thsang's account of the kingdom as the Báva and Bappa of the Valabhi grants does seem to furnish us with materials for them. are both styled 'kings of kings' and 'supreme | The donee of our grant is Bhataku mara, lords'-in fact receive exactly the same epithets son of Dronaputra,a Brahman of Valab hi, as the rulers of Valabhi-they cannot, it seems an emigrant from Gomitrika, who belonged to to me, have been mere priests or gurus, but must the Bharad vaja gotra and studied the have been real kings. At least I should like to Maitrdyaniya redaction of the Black Yajurveda. see & well anthenticated instance where a guru He also receives the epithet tachchaturvidyareceives exactly the same titles as a king. traividyasamanya, which is not quite clear to
Secondly, the Bappa of Vijayanandi me. (Pl. II., 1. 23.) The object granted is could not have been the Bappa of our grant the village of Lona pad raka, which is de--even if the latter were a priest. For Vija- scribed as situated in the Lonâpadrakasthali, yânandivermà styles himself parama- and is qualified by a further unintelligible Bhagavatah, 'the great or ardent worshipper epithet, khodasthalakoparipata kasahita. of Vishnu,' while our kings call themselves The date of the grant is the ninth day of paramamāhefraras, 'great or ardent worship- the dark demi-lanation of Sravana of Samvat pers of Siva.'. The gurue must be of the sect | 342. The second sign of the Samvat is doubtful; of the worshipper, and the Valabhi Bappa | I read it tentatively as 40 on the strength of must therefore have been a Saiva, whilst the | Dr. Bhâu Daji's statements, Jour. Bo. Br. R. Vengi Bappa must have been a Vaishnava. IAs. Soc. vol. VIII. p. 230.
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