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Kavyanusasana reign. In that case, the marriage must have taken place between A. D. 1064 and A. D. 1080.
We gather from the D. K. (X v. - 2) that for a long time after their marriage they had no issue. Karņa goes to the temple of the goddess Șrī ( Srīveşma ) or Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu, and propitiates her by praying and by practising austerities. Karşa's devotion is tested in various ways. First the heavenly damsels try to tempt him, but they fail; then a terrible male-form tries to frighten him, but it also fails. The goddess is pleased and grants him his desire.
The canto XI begins with the description of the ideal love of the king and the queen. Mayaņallā bears a child. A son is born. Astrologers, riding on horses, come to the palace. His glorious future is fore - cast. He is revealed to be an incarnation of Ramachandra (v. 20). The elderly ladies of the family gave him the name of Jayasimha (v. 39 )- a different type of name - reminiscient of his maternal grand-father's name - Jayakeşin. + According to the P. P. S. Jayasimha was eight years old when Karņa died. If this date is correct, Jayasimha's birth must have taken place in V. S. 1142 - A. D. 1086.
The account of the P. C. — that Mayanallä was very ugly and that Karņa, who first refused but later on consented to marry her under a threat of suicide from his mother Queen Udayamatī, had great dislike for Mayanallá, - should be discredited as utterly going against the much earlier testimony of Hemachandra,
+ The word of a means face that is lion. So the names are identical in meaning.
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