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ADMINISTRATION AND STATECRAFT
(Bṛhaspati) and Bhārgava (Śukrācārya) who had approached him to instruct the novel way of polity (enunciated by them).'
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Dhanapala in his introductory verses refers to Paramāra, Śrivairisiṁha, Śriharṣa, Śrīsīyaka and Sindhuraja who had an elder brother Śrivākpatirāja also known as Muñja who deeming Śrī Bhoja as a capable scion, son of Sindhurāja, installed him to the hereditary parental throne of the Paramāras in Dhārā2 proving thereby the hereditary mode of monarchy in the reign of the Paramāras.
He even calls Meghavahana a paramount sovereign (Sarvabhaumo rājā) whose senses were not dazed by the lofty elevation to divination (aiśvarya godheadship).3
On the analogy of Śukrācārya's views1 Meghavahana had sanctified the earth of the triad of the world by his conduct that had travelled on to the heavens, being extremely virtuous, with populace made satisfied by the enormous charity having been a source of delight for them all the time." Divination has been conferred on Meghavahana by Dhanapala in so far as he deems him to be an incarnation in visual form, of the one who has Aruna for his charioteer (i.e. the Sun) who moves across the limits of the four oceans with his sole orb whereas the king over-whelmed the precincts or extremities of the four oceans with the help of his sole chariot." He has been deemed a peer to Vasuki and Vasava (Indra) in point of both governing one of the lower and the upper regions whereas the king governed the middle region.' He had been endowed with favourability of the prowess of divine disposition." Even though he was a being of the mortal world he stood midway between all the worlds i. c. Being a man of the ephemeral world he was endowed with virtues that brought him on a higher plane of the divinities. He was peer to moon as well as the sun being tranquil and fierce likewise and looked thereby the vast expanse of the sky or like the expanse of the sky he bore the Moon and Sun lines (on his palm). Like Acyuta (Viş
1. निसर्गनिर्मलालोकाभ्यामीं नयमार्गमुपदेष्टुममरगुरुभार्गवाभ्यामिवोपगताभ्यामिन्दुकान्तकुण्डलाभ्यामाश्रितो भयश्रवणम् ।
TM Vol. III p. 120. LL 5-6.
2. Ibid. verses 38-43. Vol. 1.
3. अजडीकृतपरमैश्वर्यसन्निपातेन Ibid Vol. I p. 64.
4. See 15 above.
5. सर्वदाह्लादितलोकेनाप्येकदानानन्दितजनेनोदात्तेनापि चरितेन पवित्रितत्रिभुवनावनिः । Ibid Vol. I p. 61.
6. अवतार इव साक्षादरुणसारथेरेकरथाक्रान्तचतुरब्धिसीमा TM Vol. I. p. 59.
7. समस्तैकविष्टपाधिपतया तुल्यरेखया वासुकिवासक्योरवस्थितः Ibid Vol. I p. 59.
8. प्राप्तदैवपुरुषकारानुगुण्य: Ibid Vol. I p. 59.
9. मनुष्यलोक इव गुणैरुपस्थितोऽपि मध्यस्थः सर्वलोकानाम्. Ibid Vol. I pp. 59-60.
