________________
418
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
DECEMBER, 1884.
kings reigned 1118 years, becomes still more be assumed that the author possessed some evident. Finally, if these two synchronisms are authentic materials for the history of Varahistorical, it also follows that the beginning of dova's successor. But, unfortunately, his names the Kirâta dynasty has been antedated by agree in no way with those contained in our several thousand years. For SAkyamuni's Nir. inscriptions of the seventh and eighth cenvána really falls in the fifth century BC. taries A.D. Besides the immediate successors The same remarks apply to the Soma vanét of Gunakamadêva, Bhojad & va and Laand Saryavasi dynasties. In their case, kshmikamad&va, who, according to the too, it is evident that most reigns are much too Varnsdvali, ought to belong to the eighth cenlong, and that they have been placed much too tury, ruled according to the colophons of the early. The latter point comes ont most clearly | MSS. two hundred years later, between 1015through the inscriptions. According to the 1039 A.D." Nay, what is more, the dates of latter the twenty-first king of the Sûryavansi the MSS. prove that the princes of the dynasty, Månad dva, reigned from between VIIth and VIIIth Dynasties, that of the the years 386-413 of an unnamed era and the Vais Thakuris and the restored line of characters show that this period falls in the Amśn varman, reigned from the middle of fourth or fifth century of our era. Yet the the eleventh to the beginning of the fourteenth Varnávali asserts that Månadeva's grandson, centuries, and that the interval between Vasantadê va varman was crowned in Anants or Anandanalla, the last raler Kali 2800 or 301 B.C. The case of the next, of the VIIth dynasty and Jayasthitimal.. the Thákari dynasty, is, if possible, worse. la the seventh king of the Xth dynasty is Its founder, Am suvarman, is placed in Kali only seventy years. Hence it follows that the 3000 or 101 B.C., though Vikramaditya list given by the Vamávali for the eighth, ninth, of Ujjain, whose coronation the Hindus usually and tenth eenturies is incomplete, and contains put in 57 B.C., is stated to have gone to Nepál large gaps which have been concealed by anteduring the reign of his predecessor. Against dating the reigns of the kings beginning with this date we have the statement of Hiven Bhbjad é va and Lakshmikâ ma deva Thsang that a learned king, called Amu- by several centaries. With respect to the varman ruled either shortly before or during Karnataka dynasty of Nány a d dva his visit to Northern India in 637 A.D. which according to the Varnéávali conquered Further, the inscriptions of Anu varman, Nepal in Sakasanvat 811, or 889 A.D., it is as well as that of Vibhuvarman, which difficult to come to any definite conclusion. the Vamsavalto particularly mentions, show The genealogical list in the MS. No. 6 of the letters which can only belong to the sixth or German Oriental Society". places Nanyaseventh centuries of our era. If more de va's accession to the throne in Sakasamvat instances of the confusion prevailing in the 1019, or 1097 A.D. Our inscription No. 18 account given by the Tanádvali regarding makes him the ancestor of Pratapamalla, this dynasty, are wanted, it will suffice though the Vaskádvali asserts that he drove to point out that A suvarman's seventh the Mallas out of Nepal. The names of his successor, Varadeva, is said to have ruled Buccessors differ in all the documents which in Kaliyuga 3623 or A.D. 522. Thas we get enamerate them. As regards the Xth or seven generations for six hundred years. Å y 8 d hy å dynasty the date of the first king Immediately after Varadêva's time the reigns Haris i ha d & va is confirmed by the MS. suddenly become of reasonable length, and the of the German Oriental Society, where it is fifteenth prince of the shâkuri race-Guņa- given as Sakasanavat 1245, or 1323-4 A.D., just kåmaddva, the founder of Kamanda, as in the Vamsával. But it is evident from is placed in Kaliyuga 3824 or 723 A.D., two the statements of the latter work itself, that hundred years being allowed for eight gene- some of its kings were contemporaneous with rations. This portion of the Varusávali might, the Mallas of the tenth dynasty. Thus the therefore, inspire some confidence, and it might last date of Sy a masinha's reign-Nepala
* Wright's Nepal, p. 184. * Bendall, Catalogue of the Buddhist M88. in the
Cambridge Library, p. xii.
Pischel, Catalog, p. 8; Bendall, loc. cit., p. IV.
