Vol. XI, Nos. 10 & 11.] Mithila during Pre-Mughal Period. 409 
[N.S.] 
4 . 
sonages in his tales narrated in the Bhi-pradaksina, or its 
expanded form the Purusa-pariksa. There was really a king of 
Kanauj and Benares by name Jayacandra whose inscriptions 
from either place range from 1170 to 1188 a.p.!_ As described 
in another tale, the Ghasmara-katha of the Purusa-Pariksa (the 
12th tale of the fourth chapter) this Jayacandra, king of 
Kanyakubja, was defeated and killed in the war with Sahab- 
ud-din by the treachery of his queen” ; and in the Mahomedan 
histories this Kanauja king was defeated by Shahab-ud-din 
alias Muizz-uddin Muhammad in 1194 a.p. According to 
Vidyapati, therefore, Nanyadeva flourished in the time of 
Jayacandra or a little earlier, say in the third quarter of the 
twelfth century. 
This conclusion is supported by the Deopara Inscription of 
Vijayasena ° Its verses 20 and 21 suggest that Vijayasena con- 
quered one Nanya. As Vijayasena’s lower limit I have found 
out at 1158 a.p. or thereabout,*+ this Nanya ean only be the 
Now Vidyapati often introduced really historical per- 
hi-prad 
According to traditions, Nanyadeva was the founder of 
1 The coronation of Jayacandra took place on 2Ist June 1170. See 
Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, p. 121. ise 
2 The Purusa-Pariksa, Darbhanga printed edition, pp. 223-233. 
8 Ep. Ind., Vol. I., p. 309; for et Nye 5. P- oe 
* The Pavana-ditam, Appendix, J.A.5.5., 1900, Pp. ov. ie 
5 The Nepal Varnéavalé: quoted by Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji, Ind. 
Ani., ‘ x “> * * 
: aad ern 1880, p. 188, Bhagwanlal Indraji’s Inscriptions from 
Nepal, No. 18 :-— 
sen aajzastafatca ecaqfaeesise Fa ee ce | BAG OE 
Weregerras fet eaxcrerares Cieaa ageaufa arat [ui | 
