Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Bhairavasahanavarat
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Tâka race here mentioned is probably the same as that to which Madanapala, the patron of the author of the Madanapârijâta, noticed above, belonged. It was a family of petty Chiefs whose capital was, as stated in the introduction to the latter, a town of the name of Kashṭhâ situated on the Yamuna to the north of Delhi. Another small poem entitled Bhairavaśâhanavara s a ratna, (No. 152), contains 41 verses depicting the nine Rasas or poetic sentiments. The hero is a prince named Bhairavaśâha of the Rashtraudha or Râthor race, who was the son of Pratapa and whose capital was Mayûrâdri; (G., Appendix II). In the Kirtikaumudi, a Pratâpamalla of the Râshtrakuta race is mentioned as a dependent of the Chaulukyas of Anahilapattana. Rashtrakuta is the Sanskrit form of Rashtraudha or Rathor, but whether this Pratâpamalla was the same as the father of our hero cannot be determined with certainty. Bhairavaśâha is in some of the verses called Bahirammasâha which looks like a thoroughly Mahomedan name. But it is not impossible that a Rajput may have adopted it. We have also a copy of a poem called Râmaśataka, Someś vara. (No. 166), which contains a hundred verses in praise of Râma, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu. In a verse at the end, which is the 101st, we are told that the poem was composed by Someśvaradeva in half a Yama or an hour and a half. Who this Someśvara was is not stated in the manuscript, but in another copy of the poem since procured he is represented as the Purohita or priest of Gurjareśvara' or King of Gujarat. This Someśvara, therefore, was the same as the author of the Kirtikaumudi who was the chaplain or priest of Lavaṇaprasâda and his son Viradhavala, the founders of the Vaghela branch
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