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question of their withstanding the Dakanis, 378 and Mirza 'Aziz Kaka, who had been led into this trouble by the amirs of Berar, gave up all thought of fighting and acquiring honor, and fled. He fled in such haste and confusion that he was forced to blind and leave behind him some elephants which had accompanied him on his forced march, and were now unfit to take the road. He then fled towards Sultanpur and Nandarbar. The Nigam Shahi army closely pursued the imperial army, halting daily where the imperial army had halted the day before, but not venturing to engage them, until they reached the confines of Sultan Dûr and Nandârbår. 979 When these were reached Mirza 'Aziz Kûka left his army on the borders of Sultânpûr, while he marched rapidly in light order to Gujarat. The imperial
army and the Nizâm Shâhî army lay over against one another on the Sultanpûr border until • Mirza 'Aziz Kůka returned from Gujarat and retreated with his army to Ujjain, and the army of the Dakan then left the frontier and returned to the capital. It was in truth by God's blessing that the Nizâm Shâhî army was enabled, in the king's absence, successfully to oppose the imperial army of Dihli, which had overrun so many countries and ruined so many kings.
(To be continued.)
MISCELLANEA. ON SOME PASSAGES IN THE HARŞACARITAL A reference to the original Sanskrit will make it · OF BÁŅA.
clear that Skanda gupta, the commandant of the
paragrap In the sixth chaptor, nineteenth paragrap of
of elephant troops of Harsa W98 relating to his young
master, instances of disasters to kings, caused by BAna's Harsacarita, there is a sentence whic stands
their own follies, giving one instance in each sepe. thus :
rato sentence. Hence Messrs. Cowell and Thomas 34 OT T O JU10 have erred in treating Kakavarna and the son of यवननिर्मितेन नमस्तलयायिना यन्त्रयायेनानीयत कापि sisunaga as different persons. We are sure that
they had before them an edition of Harracarita काकाः शनागि नंगरोपकाडे कण्ठबास्य निचकृत which had the passage in question in the followनिस्विंसेन
ing wrong form: Monurs. Cowell and Thomas have translated this माश्चये कुतहजी च दंडोपनतयवनानिमितेन नमस्तpassage thus (page 193) :
जयायिना यन्त्रयायिनानीयत कापि काकवर्षः। खनागिन "Kakavarna being curious of marvels was car.
नगरोपकंठे कंठे निवकृते निस्विंशेन । ried away, no one knows whither on an artificial
This is the reading in Gajendragadkar's edition, aerial or made by a Yavana condemned to death.
whereas the Niroayasagar edition has the full stop The son of Bifunga had a dagger thrust into his
after कापि. throat in the vicinity of his city".
Here it is to be noticed that there is a full stop They have treated it as two separate sentences under the impression that Kakavarna and son of
between Tu: and game with the letter
I fitunago were two different persons. The Nirnaya
joined to the latter. This is the roman of their
confusion. It is a well known fact to the historian sagan Prome adition of 1897 (page 199), and the
of India that KALAVADA was the son of Sifupage, edition of 8. D. Gajendragadkar and A. B. Gajendra
and the second king of the dynasty founded by him. gadkar of 1919 (1) also divide the passage into two
A reference to the Purapie list of kings of the sentences, introducing one o f who is not men
Sibunaga dynasty, as given in Pargiter's toxt, will tioned in any of Fahrer's manuscripta. Thon again
remove all doubt. Compare also Bhagabata Puran tyuft is the reading of all the threo oditions.
(XII, 1, 4), and Vincent Smith's early History of Moon Cowell and Thomas rightly take it to be India on the chronology of the Sisunaga and Nanda to reading which is found in three of Dynasties given in a tabular from Page 14, woond Fohrer's manuscripts A,B, and D, (page 289). edition. Hence the correct translation should be
to During the retrest of the Khan-1-A'sam an action was fought at Chandur (20° 63' N. and 76° 26' E) in which the imperial troops engaged took some plunder, but their leader, 'Abdullah Sulta Kl ar, was slain.-A. N.
To Tho Khan-1-A'ram reached Nandarbar on April 10, 1686. On reaching Ahmadabad ho nearly spoondod in persuading his brother-in-law, the Khan khanan, to join him in an expedition to Ahmadnagar, but the approach of the rainy season and troubles in Malwa prevented the enterprise-A. N.
