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EXTRACTS FROM THE RAJATARAMGINI.
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CONTINUATION OF LIST OF THE KINGS OF KASMIR. VI.-The Dynasty of Pratápaditya I., and its three Successors.
Length of reign.
Y ears. 1. Pratapaditya I. ; B. C. 180 .......... 180 ......................................... ..............
32 After the banishment of Yudhishthira I., Kasmir was tributary to Harsha and
other kings (7). Yudhishthira I. did not attempt to recover his kingdom (2); though some' have said that he did so and was eventually caught and impri. soned (4). Pratápaditya I, hailed from another country' than Kasmir, and was a relative of king Vikramaditya (5). Others' have erroneously identified
this Vikramaditya with Vikramaditya, the enemy of the "Saka (Sak-ári) (6). 2. Jalsukas II., son of the preceding ; B. C. 148 ..........
Tunjina I., son of the preceding; B. C. 116 .... He, together with his queen Vâkpushtà (11), built a Saiva temple, called Tuó
gêsvara, and a town (pattana), called Katika (14). During their reign lived the great poet (mahdkavi) Chandaka, who was the author of a famous drama (náļya) (16). Once, an early fall of snow destroyed the autumn crops and thereby caused a great famine (17 to 20). This was at last stopped by miraculoas flights of dead pigeons, which appeared every day (50, 51). Queen Vákpush¢â founded the agraháras of Katimushâu and RåmashA, - the modern Kamôh and Ramoh (55). After the death of her husband, she became a sati (56). The spot, on which she entered the flames, is even now called the forest (atart) of VÅkpushtà' (57). There she founded an alms-house (sattra), which was still in existence at the time of Kalhana (58). Tunjina I. left
rio offspring (59). 4. Vijaya, of another family; B.C. &0...........
He surrounded the temple of Vijayêśvara (at Bijbihara) with a town (pattana) (62). 5. Jayendra, his son ; B. C. 72............................................................... He was jealous of his minister Samdhimati, and put him to death by empaling
him on a stake (65 to 79). Samdhimati's Guru, called fśâna, remained at the cemetery near the skeleton of his pupil (82 to 97). At midnight, & troop of witches (yogini or yôgêávcrf) restored life to Samdhimati, by reconstituting his body, and bestowed on him the two new names of Samdhimat (i.e. the
composed') and Aryarâja (98 to 110). 6. Sardhtmat, also called Aryaraja; B. C. 35 ...........
Lryaraja; b. U. 30 ....................................... He was a fervent worshipper of 'Siva, and made a vow to set up a thousand
lingas of Siva every day (128). Once, when they were not at hand, he ordered his servants to engrave one thousand 'Sivalingas all round a rock ; these were still visible in Kalhana's time (129). In the cemetery where he was revived, he built a 'Saiva temple called Sandhisvara, and another called fśêsvara after the name of his Guru, Isana (134). He also founded temples of Siva, endowed with mathas, idols and lingas, at Shêdâ, Bhimadevi and other places (135). As this pious king neglected the affairs of government, his ministers became dissatisfied with him (148), and offered the kingdom to Meghavahana (151), the son of Gôpåditya, who again was the son of the son's son of the exiled king Yudhishthira I. and had lived under the protection of the king of Gandhira (145, 146). Méghavahana was married to Amritaprabh&, the daughter of the king of Pragjyotisha; and possessed a wonderful parasol (chhattra), which king Naraka (of Pragjyotisha) had originally obtained from the god Varuņa (147 to 150). Åryaraja abdicated voluntarily and retired to Nandikshếtra, where he led the life of an ascetio (152 to 171).
Total ...... 192
