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by Mahipala's orders, was the "great city" of In the Asni insoription, however, we have Mahodaya; which, again, by a passage in the just the paramount sovereign, Mahipala, who Bdlarámáyaņa, quoted in the same place, is is wanted; with just the date, Vikrama-Samidentified with Kanyakubja, Kanyakubja, orvat 974, or A.D. 917-18, that is required; and Kansuj.
the inscription comes from a locality that must What we require, therefore, in connection have been in the kingdom of Kanauj, being with the poet Rajasekhara, is an epigraphical only about ninety miles to the south-east of record, dated within the limits specified on that city. p. 176 above, and as near as possible to the I feel no hesitation, therefore, in now claimlater of them, which shall give us the name of ing that this Mahipals is the Mabipals of the a king, either Nirbhayanarendra, or Mahipala, Introduction to Balabharata ; and his father, or Mahendrapala, and shall come from such a Mahishapala, the Nirbhayanarendra of the part of the country as shall be consistent with same passage; and that this inscription gives the fact of that king's capital being Kanauj. as close an approximation as we are likely to
The Dighwa-Dubault grant, of course, is attain for some time to come, for the date of issued from a place named Mahôdaye, which, the poet Rajasekhara, vis. abont the first in that case, may or may not be Kanauj. quarter of the tenth century A.D. But we are entirely barred from identifying And, in concluding these remarks, I would the Maharaja Mahendra påla of it with the again point out the extreme desirability of repupil of Rajasekhara, by the fact that he was discovering and editing the large inscription only a feudatory Mahúrája, and not either the in the Gwalior territory, referred to by Dr. son or a brother of a paramount sovereign: F. E. Hall in his paper on the "Vestiges of I would only add, in connection with him, Three Royal Lines of Kanyakubja," which that we may possibly find out hereafter that gives us the dates of (P Vikrama-Saṁvat) 960, he was an ancestor of Rajasekhara's Nirbha- 964, and 1005, and mentions, apparently, at yanarendra, Mahipala, and Mahendrapala. least two Mahendrapalas.
NOTES ON THE MAHABHASHYA.
BY PROF. F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. 6.-THE TEXT OF PANINI'S SUTRAS, AS GIVEN IN THE KABIKA-RITTI, COMPARED
WITH THE TEXT KNOWN TO KATYAYANA AND PATANJALI. Considering the almost unrivalled position and Haradatte, and I shall have only few which Påņini's Ashțádhyáyi holds in Indian occasions to go beyond, or to differ from, what literature, it may be interesting to inquire, has been already stated by those commentators. what alterations, if any, the text of that work But before entering upon the question with has undergone, and to collect those rules which I am more immediately concerned here, I which can be shown to be additions to the cannot help drawing attention to the fact, that original text, or the wording of which has in the text of Påņini's rules has neither in the any way been altered, since the rules were first editions of the Ashtadhyaye nor in that of the enunciated by Påņini. To contribute towards Kásika-Vritti-however valuable those editions the solution of this question, I intend in the may be otherwise-received that critical care present note to show, so far as this may be and attention, which it undoubtedly deserves. possible, to what extent the text of the Stras For years I have been content to regard the which is given in the Kasika-Vritti, the oldest printed text of the Sutras, allowing for some extant commentary, differs from the text that misprints, as trustworthy beyond doubt. It is was known to Katyayana and Patañjali. In only lately that I have become somewhat attempting to do this, I shall be mainly suspicious, and having compared such MSS. guided by the remarks that have been appen- as were within reach, I have come to the ded to certain Satras by Kaiyata, Nagôjsbhatta, conclusion, that in the case of a considerable
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