Vol. IX, No. 7.] Laksmanasena. 279 
[V.8.] 
_ (8) A manuscript of the Yogaratnamala preserved in the 
University Library, Cambridge, in which the final colophon 
runs thus :— 
1.4. Paramésvaretyadi-rajavali-pirvvavat Srima. 
1.5. -d=Govindapiladevanim sam 39 bhadra-dine 14. . . 
Only one among these records speaks of King Govinda- 
pala’s reign as vijayarajya-samvatsare, *‘ the year in the vic- 
torious reign.’? Three records state that the king had ceased 
© reign because the word gate in no. 1, atita in no. 4 and no. 
and vinasta in no. 6 cannot be interpreted otherwise. In 
three records the scribe refuses to give the titles of the king 
in full, e.g. no. 3, no. 6 and no. 8, and begins with the 
Phrase :-— 
Paramesvaretyadi or Paramabhaitaraketyadi. 
__ In one record, only no. 5, the historical reference is given 
without any qualifying adjective. 
: must be admitted on the evidence of no. 2 that the 
King Govindapala was alive and reigning in the 4th year from 
his succession (1165 A D.) and that Nalanda was included in 
his dominions as shown by the manuscript copied at that 
Place. We have two records of the 14th year of the king, 
One of which comes from Gaya. In the case of no. 1 the 
mention of the word gata indicates that the reign of Govinda- 
pala had ceased in Gaya, and in the case of no, 3 the omis- 
$10n of the full Imperial titles denotes that the place where 
the manuscript was copied had ceased to be a part of Govin- 
qapale’s dominions. Of such cases two things may be af- 
rmed :— 
(1) that King Govindapala had ceased to reign owing 
to death or abdication, or 
(2) that the area of the dominion os that prince was 
gradually becoming circumscri 
The latter explanation is to be preferred as one ms. of his 
37th year does not refer to his reign as expired. This is con- 
firmed by a ms. of the 38th year copied by the same scribe 
