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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
OCTOBER, 1920
A glance at the above genealogy will show that Madanapala was a contemporary of Govindachandra, and if there was any alliance at all, it was not with Chandra-deva but with Govinda-chandra. The whole question, however, rests on very doubtful grounds, as the Ramacharita is there unelucidated by any commentary. Possibly the campaigns of Madanapala on the banks of the Yamuna were against and not on behalf of the king of Kanani, whoever he may be. i like rear should perhaps better be taken to refer to a king of the "Chandra" dynasty of Bengal.
Thus March 1119 falls within the fourth year of Vaidyadeva, so that the date of Kumarapala's death easily works out to be A.D. 1115. Ramapala's date can now be fixed with greater accuracy. In the legendary work called dergive, there cours the following verse recording the death of R&mapala:
शाके युग्मकृशानुरन्त्रकुमिते (1) कन्यां गते भास्कर कृष्णे वाक्पतिवासरे वमतियो वामइये वासरे। . जाहण्यां जलमध्यतस्त्वमशास्वा पचनिनः हा पालान्वयमौलिमण्डनमाषः श्रीरामपालोमृतः॥
(Vide Gauqarájamala, Introd., p. 9.) This fine Sardúlavikridita stanza occurring in a mass of bad prose and worse Sanskrit has been justly taken by the late Mr. Batavyal to be a genuine record of Ramapala's demiso. 18 Besides, the latter part of the stanza bears & remarkable corroboration from the Ramacharita where also Råmapala is reported to have drowned himself in the Ganges. Unfortunately, the reading of the year has been corrupt beyond rescue. The details that follow, Abvina vadi 2 (yama means 2) corresponding with a Thursday, however, yield the following date :September 21, A.D. 1111. The corresponding Soka year 1033 actually ends in a (an emendation may accordingly be suggested a gr o ga eto.) The date moreover fits in marvellously with our determination of Vaidyadova's date. Ramapala therefore died on September 21, A.D. 1111.
The next date we mean to work out, is, we confess, based on very doubtful assumption, but we have the authority of the late De. Kielhorn. The Amgachhi plate of Vigrahapåla III is dated the ninth day of Chaitra in the 13th year of his reign and grants a village on the occasion of a lunar eclipse. Dr. Kielhorn assumed that the date of the plate was coincident with that of the lunar eclipse and calculated A.D. 1086 as the date in question. 19 This year is now unsuitable. There was, however, a lunar eclipse on March 3, A.D. 1067
vavo or woession. Date of death. Vigrahapala II .. .. .. .. Circa 965
981 Mahîpåla I .. ..
981 Circa 1030 Nayapala ..
Circa 1030
1054 Vigrahapala III .. . .. . .
1054
1067 18 Sahitya, Bengali monthly, of the your 1801 B. 8. pp. 1-10. 9 Ante, XXII, p. 108
90 The praviour Sankranti occurred near about, though not exactly at midnight ( 7227 after Sunrise). If taken practically for midnight, the moment yields 9th Chaitra as the date of the eolipec, by the application of the well-known Bengal rule of counting civil days,
*Sahitya, Bengali monthly, of the year 1301 B. 8. pp. 1-10. Ante, XXII, p. 108
10 The previous Sankranti occurred near about, though not exactly at midnight ( 7227 after Sunrise). If taken praétically for midnight, the moment yielde 9th Chaitra as the date of the selipe, by the Application of the well-known Bengal rule of counting civil days.
