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his family lived at Vellai Kuruchchi and their children were there until quite recently.11 "It is said that they still kept up the old form of having recited, on the first day of Chittrai in each year, a long account of their pedigree and the boundaries of the great kingdom of which their forebears were rulers." (Madura Gazr., p. 60). These titles alone, recognized by a few obscure men, remained their possession out of the large Empire their ancestors once ruled.
(Concluded.)
MISCELLANEA.
BANDHU BERITYA OF THE MUDRA RAKSHASA.
THE explanation given by the Tikákára, of the phrase: in the bharata-vakya to the Mudrâ-Rakshasa (ref.
:) is not satisfactory. The honorific Brimat excludes the meaning offered by Dhundhiraja. Bhrityd would be hardly called Srimantaḥ. I would take it as "He whose bhritya (servant) is Sriman Bandhu."
Who was this Bandhu, who was important enough to be mentioned in the bharuta-vakya to denote the greatness of Chandragupta II ?? In the next reign we find Bandhuvarman, son of Visvavarman of Malawa, as a governor (or vassal) of the Gupta emperor at Mandasor (Dasapura).3 But in the time of Chandragupta, Bandhuvarman's father must have been ruling over Målawa, as he was ruling even after him in 423 A.D. (Gangadhar inscription of
branding.
28 April 1689. Letter from Elihu Yale and Council at Fort St. George to the Honble. Rhede; Commissary General for the Rt. Honble. Netherlands East India Company. The 9 English prisners your Honr. was pleased to send us from Pollicat were lately tryed by a Court Martiall, one of whome being pardon'd accused the rest confessing their several robberyes and Pyracyes; when upon examination, some being Court found more culpable then others, the Condemned the most notorious Criminall to be
1
275
| 480 M. E.). It appears that neither Visva-varman nor his ancestors at Pokarana acknowledged the suzerainty of the Guptas.5
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NOTES AND NOTES FROM OLD FACTORY RECORDS. 8. Punishments for Piracy-hanging, whipping,
It seems that Bandhuvarman, son of the sturdy Visva-varman had come away to the court of Chandragupta II, most probably against the wishes of his father. The event would have caused some sensation at Pâțali-putra, for the Pokarana sove. reigns claimed to be great monarchs, Chandra having conquered up to Baktria only a generation before. Bandhu's acceptance of service or offer of alle unce would have promised the certainty of the allegiance of the great monarchy of the Varmans to the Imperial Throne in the near future. The event would have very well appeared to Visakhadatta worthy of being associated with the name of his. Emperor to indicate his great prestige.
K. I. JAYASWAL.
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hanged aboard ship at the yard arme, another to be whipt at the severall Europe shipps in the road, and aftere to be branded with a hott Iron in the forehed, and the remaining 6 to be likewise stigmatized in their foreheds with a P, which centances were accordingly executed, and all banisht the Countery. God grant their sad examples may terrefye others from the like horred crimes. This I thought necessary to acquaint your honr. with, since some of their wicked crew remain stil in your Custodye. Records of Fort St. George. Letters from Fort St. George, 1689 PP. 21-22.
R. C. T.
Buchanan, while on his way from Dodora Balapura to Sira, met at a particular place a renter of some villages "named Trimula Nayaka, from whom I received the intelligence which I consider as the most accurate that I procured during my whole journey." He says that he was a descendant of the Madura Rajas and that his ancestor was "a brother of the then reigning prince who, in a dispute, was savage enough to threaten the life of so near a relation." See Vol. I, p.
252.
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2 Ante,. 1913, p. 265.
5 Haraprasad Shastri, Ante, 1913.
: | Dhundhiraja, Telang's Mudra-Rakshasa, p. 318. 3 Fleet, Gupta Inscrs., p. 82.
4 Ibid., 74.
