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versions leads us to the conclusion that the version of the Laghu-prabandha-sangraha is the oldest of all the versions of the story available at present.
4. SAHASRALINGASARAH-PRABANDHA
This prabandha is not found anywhere else. The Prabandhacintamani relates a story about the construction of this lake in passages 100-102 on pp. 62-64, which is, however, altogether different from the one given in our text. In passage no. 96 (p. 58 ) also the Prabandhacintamani states when king Ja ya simha Siddharāja got the lake constructed. There also no clue to the story of LPS is given. At the first place it is stated that a trader wanted to have a share in the construction of the lake, which, however, was refused by king Siddharāja. While the king was engaged in his great attack on Māla vā, the funds were exhausted and the work of the construction of the lake lingered on that account. The merchant availed of the opportunity by making his son steal the ear-ornament tādarka ) of the wife of a wealthy man and then paying three hundred thousand coins as a penalty for the same. This amount was utilized for the construction of the lake; but when the king returned and learnt about the penalty paid, he returned the amount to the merchant remarking that the son of a koțidhvaja merchant cannot steal a tādanka but that it was the mischief of the tricky merchant who was refused a share. At the other place it is stated that the king engaged sacivas and silpins for the construction of Sahası alitigadharmasthāna and that while the work was going on with full speed, he marched against Māla vå. The LPS, however, informs us that on hearing the story of a Mátanga girl, who, by virtue of the merit secured by her through the quenching of the thirst of a vatsika by fetching water from a deep well, became a princess in the next birth and, remembering her previous birth on seeing very little water in the same well, got constructed a lake,-king Jay a sim hadeva got constructed the lake Sahasralinga on the site of the lake Durlabhasaras.
S. SIDDHI-BUDDHI-RAULĀŅI-PRABANDHA
This prabandha appears at two other places: (1) Purātana-prabandhasangraha, passage 76 on p. 36: The story is related here in an abridged form comprising only four printed lines. It is found in codex Gonly, and, as stated by Muni Jinavija y aji, the learned editor, in his Introduction in Hindi (pp. 18-19), this Ms. is—with the single exception of the Vikramaditya-prabandha--a miscellaneous collection of short notes prepared by the scribe himself while reading the stories somewhere or while listening to the
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