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GolArah : a hedged enclosure outside a village, in which the manure heaps are kept and the women bake the cowdang fuel. Cf. wúrah. Ludhiana S. R. 1883. p. 64.
Gohr: the real gohr is the road by which the cattlo leave the houses to go out grazing. It is the big road in and out of a hamn'et, and runs between fences. Kangra Gloss.
Gohra: a large mango fruit, round like the balls made up of cleaned coiton. Hoshiarpur S. R., p. 15.
Gohral, gohrán, a cattie-shed. Kangra Gloss.
Gohth: a place where sheep are pemed or collected for the night in the high ranges. Kangra Gloss.
Goiya, gongmo (Spiti): snow pliensant-see gulind. Gokrú: a grass. Cf. bhakri. Gola : a hail-storm. Cf. galla.
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CORRESPONDENCE,
Oxford, 13th June 1911. was successful. This is quite possible; but so In the June number of this Journal, p. 170, far as I know, there is no known bistorical there is a valuable note by Professor K. B evidence of any sort in support of it. Anil, in any Pathak on the historical implications in the case, the verse itself would seem to indicate that, passage of Vamana's Kárydlankára stitra-vritli, if there was such a civil war of the two brothers. which he quotes. In a footnote you rightly draw Chandraprakasa was successful. For the Verse attention to an earlier note of M. M. Haraprasad says of bim that he was kritártha-śrama, ie, Sastri on the samo subject. As to the implica successful in bis endeavour. What endeavour 1 tions, I am disposed, in the main, to agree with On the hypothesis, one naturally thinks of ChanProfessor Pathak's interpretation of the pass- d apraksa's endeavour to secure the sucoession age, that it contains a reference to the accession as against his brother Kamaragupta. Here one Guito bhupatih) of Chandragupta II's son, Kuma- must observe the word sampruti (now), in the verse. ragupta. I have no prints or manuscripts of That word suggests an early date after the death V&mana's work at hand, but it would seem that of Chandragupta II, and M M Haraprasad might M. M. Haraprasad's reading of Subandhu is a reply that Chandraprakasa's success was quite mere conjecture, not supported by any manu- transitory, and was soon superseded by that of script evidence. The manuscript reading Vastti-kumaragupta. But is there any real need for the bandhuis obviously a clerical error for Vasuban- hypothesis? Is it not much simpler to suppose dhu. As to M. M. Haraprasad's objection that that Chandragupta's son was known as Chandra"a Buddhist monk would not accept office" (of prakasa, before, upon his succession to the throne, minister), does the term sichirya, in the verse he assumed the regnal name of Kumâragupta ! cited by Vámana, necessarily refer to the minis- Only upon this alternative hypothesis, the phrase terial office ? May it not simply mean "compa- kritârtha-brana, successful in his endeavour, yields nionship" or "friendship"
no satisfactory meaning. What was his endeaBut what concerns me more immediately is a vour in that case? Possibly there may be some, point that arises out of Professor Pathak's inter- now not intelligible, explanation of it on the pretation. The verse, as translated by him, does alliterations of the two phrases kritadhiyam and not name the person to whom it refers. Is that kritertha-srama. & probable thing in a verse wbich refers to a On either bypothesis, however, we have the person as "deserving congratulations on the result of the fixation of the date of the compa success of his efforts"? One does not usually sition of the verse within a brief interval, immecongratulate a person anonyinously. It appears i diately after Chandragupta's death, either before to me that M. M. Haraprasad Sastri is right in Chandraprakasa was displaced by his brother taking the term Chandraprakiba to be the name Kumaragupta, or before Chandraprakasa assumed of the son of Chandragupta. But, then, what is the regnal name KumAragupta; that is to say, the relation of this Chandrapraksa to Kumara- the date would be 413 A.D., to adopt Mr. Vincent guptaP M. M. Haraprasa 1 suggests the hypo- Smith's chronology. thesis that Chandragupta II had two sons, and that upon his death a civil war broke out between the two brothers, in which however Kumaragupta
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