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[N.8.] 
from his father’s enemy.'! A few more facts may have been 
recorded, but the MS. is corrupt, and the early Maithili in 
which it is written is as yet unintelligible. 
6. BHAVASIMHADEVA, BHAVESA. 
The elder branch died childless, and then the younger son 
f Kameévara, Bhavesa, succeeded. He is undoubtedly the 
Misra’s Krtya-maharnava and Mahadana-nirnaya, in Misaru 
Migra’s Vivada-candra, and in Varddhamana’s Ganga-krtya- 
viveka, the king’s name has been shortened to Bhavesa. 
gave up body before the Lord Siva on the bank of the 
Vagvati.? 
7. DEVASIMHA. 
e eldest son and successor of Bhavasimha. With him 
began the elder branch of the junior family continuing up to 
Padmasirnha, He had a viruda, Garura-narayana, the first to 
be authentically traced. The Padavali mentions Hasinidevi as 
his queen 
By his order Vidyapati wrote 
the travel of Baladeva from 
desa (Mithila), in the course of 
v With this king’s consent 
Sridatta compiled the smrtic Ek-agni-dana-paddhati.* Hari- 
en 
1 Ind. Govt. MS., Ist pallava, p. 2 :— 
greeqdeey TaTe aifafes ataes | 
Hay saTeHe FS qmac Vercays ll 
2 The Purusa-pariksa, the end verse No, — 
afd ara ag: 
gat wey fearaeacanercearset iil et) 
8 Vidusnat;’ cuit i o No. 269 :— 
Vidyapati’s Padavali (Bengali ed.), song NO- - 
eifafa 2fayta 2afee acuta 
aaeuray UF Yaa el | 
¥or other’ refesenced; aoe ite Moe. 32, 54 (Nepal MC:), 219, B (p. 499). 
E 15 (p. 544). Ais ei 
* The Bhi-parikramana, Sanskrit College MS., VI. 79 (fol. la), introd. 
verses 8 sc “ . 
dafeefaanie afasTcaatte: | 
fra fier fag: Gatrataattast iil 8 W] 
