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Historical data in the Tilakamañjari of Dhanapala
Munja
elder brother Vak pati, also called Nava
Or N.vinaSahasañka,
Vajratasvāmia Śrı Harsadeva
Śni Bhoja
srimad Vakpati
rājadeva
His younger brother Śrı Sindhurāja
Śr Bhoja
Śri Udayaditya The comparative table of gencology makes it manifest that Dhanapala close only those figures that were eminent enough to have come to his koowidge, for the purpose of his poetic requirements and hc omitted those that were ncver the paramount sovereigns of the calibre of those such as Vairisimha, Sry Siyaka-Harya, Sri Sindhurija and his elder brother Śrmadvakpatirtja Munja and son Sri Bhoja And since he flourished in the reign periods of the last three 1 e. Vakpatiraja, Sindhurāja and Bhoja 40 he simply ignored the earlier ones in order to devote more of his poetic wealth meant to bclaud and cluvate their personalities. He has given śrr Harsa as a variant name for Sri Siyaka while Padmagupta is silcnt about this variant name Uderur Prasasti also omits and gives sriyaka for Sıyaka, This is possible that in the inscription it may have been a depleted text i c. Sriyaka as a wrong version of Sri Sıyaka, the letter si' missing by chance as such, But the existence of Sri Vakpati, another Vairisimba alias Vajralasvumin followed by Srimad Vakpatı, the older brother of Sri sindhuraja is prone to disprove the historicity of the geneology of Dhanapala's text in so for us, we find an carlier Vākpati, the author of Gaudavadha or Gauclavaho, known from Rajasekharal, Dhanapala-2 and Kalhana.43 Rajasekhara las quoted Vakpaliraja wbile illustrating the point of plagiarism in senses of various sounds). Dhanapala has mentioned Vak patiraja after Bhavabhūti and before Yayavarakavi (1. e. Rajasekhara and has eulogised the soaring poctic imagination of the poet imbedded in his talent reminiscent of the composition of Gaudavadha.. Kallana has reckoned Vakpatiraja as a contemporary of Bhavabhūti under the suzerainty of klog Yasovarman of Kanauj who had a clash with king Lalitaditya of Kašmira [in 740 A, D.) and died in A D. 753 46
In the Udayasundarikathi of Sodelhala Vakpatiräja has been called a Samanta janma' i, e, the son of a vassal. This make it amply manlfest that Dhanapala places Vakpatiraja of Gaulavadba before Rajasekhara YEYKyarakayı 880-920 A. D.] and, therofore, before Vakpatırajadeva (Munja)
