________________ Tradition of the Vaisali Region 211 Vidathin-Bharadvaja, whom he adopted). His queen was Manini, daughter of Vidurath, the king of Daksinapatha, (evidently the suceessor of Vapusmat of the episode narrated above, --who had no other way but to make peace with Dama-Bharata by submission and a subsequent matrimonial alliance). A tender story is given about Rajya-vardhana's first grey hairs and Manini's grief at that discovery. The pair resolved to renounce the world, but the 'subordinate rulers' of the empire and the 'citizens of its many cities' wished to prevent this by all means in their power They repaired to the Guru-Visala forest in the hills of Kamarupa (which region was within Bharata's empire), and began to propitiate the sun-god at his temple there, and obtained a boon of very long life and rule of the beloved Rajy-vardhana, but in the confusion forgot to ask for the same long life and happiness for the Queen and the subjects and court. This made Rajya-vardhana extremely worried, and he and Manini both now went to Kamarupa and together worshipped in the same shrine of the sun-god, obtaining the boon of equal longevity and good and happy life for all concerned. The praise of this beloved and noble king was sung by Pramati-Bhargava. After Vidathin-Rajya-vardhana, the Vaisali region drops connexion with the Turvasa-Paurava grafted dynasty, and passes under control of the house of Trnavindu, a local prioce who rose to eminence. A royal marriage between his daughter's son, Vibravas, and Vara-varnin), daughter (or sister) of Bharadvaja (nephew of Samvartta and grandfather of Vidathin, adoptive successor of Bharata), served to increase the influence of the new dynasty. Tgmavindu's son was King Visala' and it is said he built (or rebuilt) Vaisali, or built a second or a new city of Vaisaly. As already 'noted, his adopted daughter (or sister), the "Vaisalini, Bhamini, was 'mother of Marutta, the immediate predecessor of Nosyanta (Dusyanta) 'Dama'-Bharata. The line of Trnavindu possessed this Vaisali till the time of Rama-Dasarathi, when Pramati was its king. 1. This is anotber Viduratha, of Kundina in Vidarbha or Berar, not of the Nirvindhya region in Malava. 2. A later Pramati than the one contemporary with Sudeva of Kasi. Or perhaps his sister's daughter by the 'gandharva' or Court Musician Tunaya (see before). The term 'Bbamioi, is used for 'Deva-dasi' of temples in medieval Sanskrit inscriptions of Bihar; so 'Bhaminl' here too can be taken as describing her apsaras' status, and not as her proper name.
