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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1877.
the length of whose reigns is known, are added together and deducted) from the past period of the Kaliyuga diminished by that time which elapsed between the beginning of the Kaliyuga and the Bhirata war), no rest remains. 51When six hundred and fifty-three years of the Kaliyuga had passed away, the Kurus and Pandavas lived on the earth. "At present, in the twenty-fourth year (of) the Laukika (era), one thousand and seventy years of the Saka era have passed. "On the whole, at that time) two thousand three hundred and thirty years have clapsed since the times of) Gonanda (III.). **Twelve hundred and sixty-six years are supposed (to be comprised) in the sum of the reigns of those fifty-two kings. "Since the Great Bear moves in a hundred years from one Nakshatra to the other, the author of the (Brinat) Samhita has thus given his decision regarding its motion in this (verse) :
56 " When king Yudhish thira ruled the carth, the Munis (the Great Bear) stood in the Nakshatra) Maghah. His reign fell 2526 years (before) the Saka era."
57The brave king of Kasmir, Gonanda, was worshipped by the region of the North), which Kailas a illuminates (with the glitter of its snow), and rolling Ganga clothes with a soft and transparent garment.
5The earth, afraid as it were that Sesha's poison might be infused into her, left the serpent's body aud rested in the king's arm that was adorned by the jewel sacred to Garuda. "Jarasandha, his relation, called on him for help. With a large army he besieged Mathura (the town) of Krishna. 52 Regarding the Laukiks or Saptarshi era see above.
The proper reading, instead of the 34t of the Cal. cutta and Paris editions, is Tent, which is found in all
Arada MSS. The mistake has been caused by the reHemblance of Sarada u and ta.
46 The verse is found Brihat Sarishita xiii. 3. Jour. R.As. Soc. N. S. vol. v. p. 79. From yv. 48-56, which give the chronological basis of the Tarangint, it would appear that the statement of the Nflamata, which makes Gonanda II. contemporary with the Kurus and Pandavas, was the starting point common to Kalhans and other chronologista. But while others placed Gonanda in the beginning of the Kaliyuga, guided by the tradition that the Great War occurred at the end of the Dvåpara-yoga, Kalhaņa used Vardhamihir's date of Yudhishthira, 2526 before Saka, or 663 Kali, to determine the beginning of the Gonandas. He then cut down or lengthened (vide above, v. 21) the reigns of the Kasmirian kings until their sum total plus 653 agreed with the time which had elapsed between the year in which he began to write, viz. 1070, and the beginning of the Kaliyuga. His equation, as has been shown by Wilson, Troyer, and others, is
Years of the Kaliyaga 52 lost kings of Kasmir elapeed in Saka 1070=1070
1266 (v. 54) From Gopanda III. + 3179
+ 2330 (v. 53)
+ 653 (v. 51) 4249
4249 The expression priyah, on the whole' (v. 53), and 'matak (v. 54), seem to me further proof (in addition to the direct statement, v. 21) that Kalbana did make alterations in the
When he pitched his camp on the banks of the Kalindi, the fame of the hostile) warriors vanished together with the smiles of the females of Yadu's race. 610nce (Balarama), whose ensign is the plough, engaged that warrior in battle in order to protect his entirely shattered forces. The bridal wreath of the goddess of victory faded, since it remained long in her hands, while those warriors of equal strength were combating each other and the result was doubtful. Finally, with limbs wounded by each other's weapons, the king of Kasmir embraced the earth, and the scion of Y ad u the goddess of victory.
* When that brave warrior travelled the road which great heroes easily find, his son, the illus. trious Då modara, protected the earth. That proud prince, though he had obtained a kingdom which was distinguished by affording the means of enjoyment, found no peace because he brooded over the death of his father. Then that (hero), whose arm, (strong) like a tree, was burning with pride, heard that the Vrish nis had been invited by the Gånd håras on the banks of the Indus to an approaching svayanwara, and that they had come. 7 Then, (impelled) by excessive fary, he undertook on their approach an expedition against them, obscuring the sky with the dust that the horses of his army raised. 68In the battle with those (foes), the bride, who was about to choose a husband and was impatient for the wedding, was slain. Then the celestial maidens chose husbands in G And hára. land. Then the valiant ruler of the earth-disc, attacking, in the battle with the god whose wealength of the reigns. Another circumstance shows with what levity Kalhana worked. The period of 1966 years begins with the reign of Gonanda I.; and Gonanda II., his grandson, was, according to the Purana, the infaut king when the Great War began. Nevertheless he assumes that the coronation of Yudhishthira occurred in the first year of Gonanda I., as he places the whole of the 1966 years after Kali 668, in which Yudhishthiru wis installed on the throne, according to Vardhamihira.
07 This as well as the subsequent stories regarding Damodara and Gonanda II. down to v. 82 are taken from the Nflamatapurana.
6 The jewel sacred to Garuda, the destroyer of the Serpents, is the emerald. Read with the Sar. MSS. instead of the nonsensical of the editions. 6. The road to Svarga is meant.
os Read here and lsewhere with the Sarada MSS., 47 : instead of th:
66 Regarding the Gandh Aras on the Sindhu see Cunningham, Anc. Geog. pp. 47 seqq. Fishni is another name of the Yadavus. In the text read cafouTCI :
as The editions read aware, a corruption of which is also found in Ch.; G reads . The former reading gives no sense. Nighnyate is apparently intended for nihanyate, and it is just possible that Kalhana wed this incorrect form on account of the metre.
60 The namerous puns on the word chakra, disc,' make this verse dear to the pandit. Chakradhdradhvani, 'by the road of the edge of the battle-disc,' may also be dis
