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. DATE OF THE POET RAJASEKHARA.
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THE DATE OF THE POET RAJASEKHARA.
BY J. F. FLEET, BO.C.S., M.B.A.S., C.L.E. The question of the date of the poet Raja- to the poet at all; having not even commented bokhara has been last trested of by Mr. on Gen, Canningham's suggestion,' that in Vaman Shivram Apte, in his Rajasekhara; this Mahêndrapala we may probably find the His Life and Writings, published in 1886, at patron of the poet; or on Dr. F. E. Hall's almost the commencement of which we find the suggestion, that the poet may possibly be paragraph-"Different scholars have proposed identified with the composer of the Bilhart “different dates for Rajasekhara. H. H. Wilson inscription of Yuvaraja, of the family of the "places him at the end of the 11th or beginning Kalachuris of Tripura, the date of which, if any " of the 12th century ;' Professor Bhandarkar was recorded, is unfortunately lost, "places him about the 10th century;' Mr. J. F. For this silence, I had very good reasons. " Fleet assigns his pupil to the middle of the In the first place, I could see no possible "8th century;' Dr. Peterson and Pandit grounds for identifying the feudatory Maharaja "Durgapragada have accepted the same date ;Mahôndrspåla with either of the paramount "Mr. A. Bordoah consigns him to the 7th sovereigns who were respectively the patron "centary;" while Prof. Max Müller relegates and the pupil of the poet. And, in the second " him to the 14th."
place, my friend Dr. Peterson was then What the above reference to myself means, specially engaged in the inquiry; and, having I do not quite understand; and any intelligent I given him an outline of the facts regarding the perasal of my paper on the Dighwa-Dabault Maharaja Mahendra påla, I left him to work grant of the Mahardja Mahồndrapala, dated them out. A reference will show that, though, Harsha-Samyat 155, will shew that I have not in his Subhdshitávali, Introd. p. 101, in suggested that this person was the pupil of writing “king Mahendrapala, to whom RajaRajasekhars, and have not made any reference
"sekhara himself refers as a papil of his own,
• Read rajye sarvatears. fateau..
Hindu Theatre, Vol. II. P: 369. . Read mar-duklapakahy, as indionted by the abbre- Report on Sanskrit M88. for 1882-83, p. . viation va, for wadya or bahula, in line 7.
See the article in the April number of the Indian . Read saptamydm. Rend paljd.
Antiquary on Mahendrapala's grant;" 1.e. ante, Vol. 10 It is not apparent what emendations should be made | XV. p. 105 4 herp.
The Submahitavali of Vallabhadema (1896), p. 101 of 1 Thin ga is almost entirely broken away; but the the Introduction. Na remnant of it is soficient indioation.
Bhavabhai and his place in Sanskrit Literature, 1 The monning of this word is not apparent, unlose it p. 17 is the name of the chaitya.
India; What can it toch wel p. 888. The diotionaries give chatya M only . masculine
Archaol. Suro. Ind. Vol. II, p. 86.
. and neuter base.
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