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the second place, it refers to the fact that Vākpati had really a minister named Rudrāditya. This also finds support from his Ujjain grant of 980 A.D.' Dr. Bühler has pointed out the date of this event with the help of a colophon of the Jain Amitagati's Subhāṣita-ratna-sandoha, which relates that it was composed during the reign of Muñja in V.E. 1050 (A.D. 993-94), and Tailapa II died shortly before or actually in the Saka year 919, i.e., 997-998 A.D., which is the first year of his successor. The death of Muñja, therefore, must have taken place in one of the three years, 994-996 A.D. We have seen above that the earliest known date of Siyaka's successor Väkpati (II) is V.E. 1031 (974 A.D.). It appears, therefore, that he must have ruled about twenty-two years.
So far as his romantic career is concerned we have several verses in Apabhramśa composed soon after his death and preserved in the Jain prabandhas which confirm the fact. Perhaps they are taken from an Apabhraíśa work Munjarāsa which is believed to have belonged to the eleventh century. The Prabandha-cintamani states:
"During this stage of his life, he was devoted to a certain lady and he used to mount a camel named Girikalla and travel twelve yojanas and return in the night. Later, his passion cooled down and she sent him a message thus: "Muñja, the rope has fallen; fool, you do not see it. The clouds of Āsādha are roaring, the ground will now be slimy."
It has already been pointed out that Muñja while he was in the prison, fell in love with Tailapa's widow sister, Mļņālavatī. When both were looking in a mirror, the elderly widow desponded on account of her wrinkled face. Upon this Muñja said, "Mşņālavati, do not weep over departed youth. Sugarcandy, even if broken into a thousand pieces, will taste sweet."4
Later on he mourns much over his fallen fortune. He says: "I have lost my elephants and chariots, I have lost my horses; I have lost my
1 1A., XIV, pp. 159-161. 2 V. 922: THE CAT fi fata, è aq fort wafat fe anayei
समाप्ते पञ्चम्यामवति धरणीं मुञ्जनृपतौ, सिते पक्षे पौषे बुधहितमिदं शास्त्रमनघम् ॥ 3 SJGM, I, p. 21, in fn.: fat gaght FRITAT TOTT
E ITANTE योजिनी निशि प्रयाति प्रत्यायाति च। तया समं विश्लेषे जाते इमं दोधकमप्रैषीत्
मुजषडल्ला दोरडी पेक्खिसि न गमारि। आसढि घण गज्जीई चिक्खिलिहोसे अबारि। 4 Ibid., p. 23: SI TE 593 TouTu
जइ सक्कर सयखण्ड थिय तोई स मीठी चूरि।
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