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to the enemy-side. This implies that this Sy & ma la was in service during Siddharaja's reign as well.
(30) SAMALA SOLAJOANAU DOTU: Appears to have been a very speedy royal messenger who was reputed to traverse a distance of sixteen yojanas (i.e., about 128 miles) in a watch probably mounting a
she-camel.
(31) NARANU BAIMKARU is not noted anywhere else, but appears to be a songster (baimkära or baikara) named Narayana.
(32) SOLA BAIMKARU also, though not mentioned elsewhere, seems to be another songster of Ja y asimha's court.
Over and above these the following also are mentioned as the members of the royal court (1) Suhāsolā, (2) Ucitabola, (3) Malakara, (4) Malakara, (5) Kautigiya, (6) Kalahaṭiya, (7) Nacagara, (8) Vesagara, (9) Kaviyara, (10) Kathagar, (11) Ritilaga, (12) Rangācārya and (13) Vyasa.
These are not proper nouns but they are epithets indicative of different types of profession. As these terms are dealt with in the Lexicogra phical Study, the readers are requested to refer to Appendix 'A' for their connotations in order to avoid repetition. This whole passage is very important from the historical point of view not only because so many historical personages are mentioned therein, but also for the fact that it shows in this way that all the guilds-good (pavitra) and bad (bhanda)-were represented in the royal court.
Subsequent to this list is the story of Ka malavati which does not seem to have any bearing on history. What is important for our purpose is the last statement informing that on listening to the story king Ja yasimhadeva got constructed a (new) lake called Sahasralinga on the site of the (old) lake Durlabhasarah. The statement in the SarasvatiFurana (composed during the final years of Jayasimha's reign) that once Siddharaja began to think as to how the old water-less lake to the north of the capital, which was constructed by Durlabharaja, could again be filled with water (XV, 101-102), the one in the Prabhavakacarita that poet Sripala had written a prasasti of the Durlabhasarah (Hemacandrasuri-prabandha, verse 205) and another in the PC (p. 64) that Sripala composed the prasasti of the lake Sahasralinga corroborate this pronouncement of our text. In later works such as the Moharajaparajaya and Hammiramadamardana we get nice descriptions of the city of Patana,
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