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Cetarājavamsa-vadhana or Cetirājaramsa-vadhana but also to appreciate why he has been praised as rājisivamsakula-vinisita.
The third statement as to Khāravela being installed as a mighty king in the third generation of two kings belonging to the then reigning dynasty of Kalinga, implies that be ascended the throne of Kalinga by the lawful right of succession, which is to say, that he was in no sense a usurper of the royal power. Differences of opinion are bound to be as to the correct interpretation of the phrase tatiye Kalimgarājavamse purisa-yuge. Mr. Jayaswal explains it as meaning "in the third dynasty of the Aira line of the kings of Kalinga," while with Dr. R. C. Majumdar it means “in the third generation of the Kalinga kings.” Both the interpretations have obviously missed the technical sense of the expression purisa-yuga. As for the ordinal tatiya meaning " the third," there is no doubt that it qualifies purisa-yuga. For in the Hāthi-Gumphā record of Khāravela's tenth regnal year (I. 11), we come across the expression Kalimgarājavamsānam tatiyayugasagāvasāne which, as a slightly different manipulation of the phrase taliye Kalimgarājavamse purisa-yuge, leaves no room for doubt that the numerical adjective tatiya was intended to be applied to yuga or purisayuga. Here the plural form of Kalim garājavamsa might seem to bear out Mr. Jayaswal's interpretation. But we must not forget that the word purisa is understood, and that the expression Kalimgarājavam sānam may be better interpreted as meaning "of those of the royal dynasty of Kalinga."
The yuga, saga (sarga) and vamsa are three of the main subjectmatters of a Hinda Parāņa. The term tatiya-yuga presupposes the Indian tradition of caturyuga, “the four yugus," each of the yugas implying, according to Hindu cosmogony, a distinct “age" in the development of the world-system, the term "age” being used in the same sense as in “ the Golden Age," " the Iron Age," and so forth, Thus it may be shown that the Hindu sense of ynga or of caturyuga is primarily cosmogonic.
The term saga or sarga signifies, according to Hindu cosmogony, a stage or landmark in, or a sectional presentation of, the creative evolution of the cosmos. It is precisely in the sense of sectional presentation or chapter-division that the term sarga has been used in both
1. Sridharasvāmi in his Țikā on the Vişnu-Parāņa, I. 2. 66, explains sarga as a synonym of sreţi : sargad ikartta ai esamürttih sretyä dirūpah cf. the terms Brahmasargo, dovasarga, bhūtasarga, and the like used in the Vişnu.Purāņa, I. 5. 18-24.
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