Indian Antiquary Vol 18

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 79

MARCH, 1889.)
EXTRACTS FROM THE RAJATARAMGINI.
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The Afty-two rulers in question are as follows:
LIST OF THE KINGS OF KASMIR.
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1. Four rulers whose names are taken from the Nilamata-Purana ............... verse
1. Gonanda I. .................... He is made by Kalhaņa a contemporary of Yudhishthira in B. C.
2448. At the call of his relative, Jarâsamdha, he besieged Mathura, the city of Krishna on the banks of the Kalindi, i.e. the Jamna, and vanquished the descendants of Yadu (59, 60). But subsequently he himself was slain by the Yâdava leader Långaladhvaja,
i.e. Balarama (61 to 63). 2. Damodara I., son of the preceding .........
→ He, in order to revenge his father's death, attacked the Vrishộis (or
Yadavas), who had been invited to a svayavara by the Gandhå ras
(65 to 68), and was killed in battle by Kệishna (69). 8. Yasovati, widow of the preceding.............. Damodara I. died before a son was born to him; and Yaśðvati, being pregnant, was installed at the advice of Krishna (70), and in due
course of time bore a son (74). 4. Gonanda II., son of Damodara I. and Yasovati .. He was named after his grandfather (76). He was the contemporary
of the Kurus and Påņqavas; but, on account of his infancy, he
took no part in the war between them (82). II. 5 to 89. Thirty-five kings whose names are lost... III. Eight kings recorded by Padmamihira on the authority of Helårája's
Párthivúvali ........ 40. Lava ....... He founded the town of Lôlôra (86), --still existent in the Lolab
Pargañá (K. R. p. lxxix. note),--and gave to Brühmaņs the agrahara of Lêvara on the river Lêdari (87), i.e. the modern Lidar, the principal northern tributary of the Vitasta, which it joins
near Bijbihára (loc. cit.) 41. Kuba, son of the preceding .............. He presented the agrahára of Kuruhâra (88), which is supposed to
be the modern Kular in the Dachhinpara Pargaņå (loc. cit.) 42. Khagendra, son of the preceding ........................................ , He established the two principal agraháras, Khagi and Khônamusha
(90), 1.e. the modern Kakapur and Khanmôh (loc. cit.) 49. Surendra, son of the preceding ...................... He founded, on the frontier of the Darad country (or Dardistån),
a city named Sôraka and a vihára named Narendrabhavana (93); also, in his own territory, a vihdra named Sôrasa (94).
He died without leaving issue (95). 44, Godhara, of another family.....................
....... He presented to Brahmaņs the agrahára of Hastiśál (96), which seems
to be now known as Asththil (loc. cit.) 46. Suvarna, son of the preceding ...................... He diverted the Suvarnamaņikulyå, - the modern brook Sunnamaya
in the Adhvan Pargana (loc. cit.), - and caused it to flow in the
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