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APRIL, 1889.]
EXTRACTS FROM THE RAJATARAMGINI.
20. Narendraditya I., also called Khinkhila, son of the preceding; B.C. 250; verses 347 to 349
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Length of reign..
y. m. d.
He consecrated the temple of Bhûtêsvara, and diverted the river Akshayini (347). His Guru Ugra built the temple of Ugrêsa and a circle of the Divine Mothers (348).
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21. Yudhishthira I., also called Andha-Yudhishthira, son of the preceding; B.C. 214; verses 350 to 373 He lost the throne and was exiled through a conspiracy of his ministers with some neighbouring kings (360 to 373).
99
Total of the reigns of the second Tarainga......
third fourth
36 3 10
.....(Not stated)
TOTAL...... 968y. 2m. 23d.
Thus, from the beginning of the reign of Gonanda III. to the end of that of Narendraditya I., the text. purports to account for a period of 968 years, 2 months, 23 days. In the explanation of Taramga i. verses 48, 49, I venture to agree with M. Troyer against Dr. Bühler, and to translate:-"Misled by the tradition that the Bhârata (war) took place at the end of the Dvâpara (yuga), some have considered as wrong the sum of years (contained in the statement that) in the Kaliyuga the kings, beginning with Gônanda (I.), ruled over the Kasmiras for 2268 years." Kalhana does not really doubt the correctness of this number. What he seeks to do, is, to prove, with its help, that the great war took place in Kaliyuga-Samvat 653 (expired), or B. C. 2448. Taking this number, and dedacting from it the 1266 years during which there reigned the fifty-two kings from Gonanda I. to Abhimanyu, there remain 1002 years as the period of the dynasty of Gônanda III.; and further deducting the 968 years, 2 months, 23 days, made out above, there remain 33 years, 9 months, 7 days, as the supposed length of the reign of Yudhishthira I. or Andha-Yudhishthira.
These numbers admit of being controlled in the following manner :-According to Kalhana's own statement (i. 53), a rough number of 2330 years had elapsed from the accession of Gónanda III. up to the time of the author himself. Deducting from these 2330 years the 1002 years from Gônanda III. to Yudhishthira I., there remain 1328 years to be accounted for. An addition of the figures, which are mentioned in the seven later Taramgas, gives a slightly different result:
from (1). Durlabbavardhana to
(14). Brihaspati Add the period from the death of Brihaspati, Saptarshi-Samvat [38]89 (iv. 702), to the date of the Rájatarashgint, Saptarshi-Samvat [42]24 (i. 52)
3. m. d. 192 0 0 589 10 1
212 5.27
335 0 0
Total
1329 3 28
In order to reconcile this total with the result of the first calculation, we have the choice. between two ways of procedure. Firstly, the reign of Yudhishthira I., which was made out above as amounting to 33 years, 9 months, 7 days, might be shortened by 1 year, 3 months,
1 See my previous paper.
2 At the end of the third Taratiage, P has the following verse :- सैकोननवतियात्र वर्षाणां शतपचकः । दश मासाच
मैकाहा गता दशसु राजसु ॥. In order to obtain this total, rond परिवर्त in verse 379 and चतुर्भिर्मासैरूनां in verse
526 of the Paris edition.
The length of these 14 reigns is correctly given in M. king, Sangramapida, who ruled only for 7 days (
Troyer's table, Vol. II. p. 306, besides that of the 9th ), and not for 7 years.
