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or Valavalabht . whose son, Bhavadevabhatta, was the minister 

 of Harivarmnian. 1 



It should be noted that the King of KauSambi mentioned 

 in the Ramaearita of Sandhyakaranandin was not a king of 

 Kausambl in the MadhyadeSa (Kosam near Allahabad) but a 

 minor prince of Bengal, because the Belabo grant proves that 

 there was a Kausambl in the Paundra bhulcti. It is most 

 probably the modern Pargana of Kusumba or Kusambi in 

 the Rajshahi District." 2 



Jatavarmmanhadasonby ViraSrI, named Samalavarmmau. 

 At this point at least one new name is introduced. This is 

 Udayin. By a slip of the pen tasya instead of tatha has been 

 written at the beginning of the tenth verse. There are some 

 more mistakes or omissions in the verse which makes it very 

 difficult to understand it. Mr. Basak takes the word Udayin 

 in its literal sense and makes the other name Jagad-vijayamalla 

 an adjective of Manobhu (Kama) but he fails to interpret the 

 al connection between verses 9 and 10. Mahamahopadhyaya 

 Haraprasad Sastrl and Babu Nagendra Natha ,Vasu, who 

 has merely quoted the former's opinion, take Udayin and 

 Jagadvijayamalla as proper names, and relying on the name 

 M MalavyadevI M assert that Udayin is the same as the 

 Paramara Udayaditya who defeated the Kalacuri-Cedi King 

 Karnna and identify Jagadvijayamalla with Jagaddeva or 

 Jagdeo, the youngest son of Udayaditya who served under 

 Jayasimha-Siddharaja of the Chaulukya dynasty of Anahila- 

 pataka. There is a good deal of truth in the their statement 

 and the tenth verse is not intelligible if "Udayi" is not 

 taken as a proper name. The word " Jagadvijayamalla 

 is more difficult. It can easily be taken to be an adjective 

 of Manobhu and at the same time it can be said that it is a 

 proper name. The last view is most probably the correct one 

 as Udayi's son is mentioned in verse 10 and so it is quite 

 natural to expect the name after it. The name Malavyadevi 

 has led Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastrl to place the 

 people named in these verses in the Malava country or modern 

 -Malwa. But the difficulty caused by the difference between 

 the names Jagaddeva and Jagad-vijayamalla cannot be so 

 easily surmounted. A name might be given arbitrarily or for 

 insufficient reasons. There are other name3 which approach 

 Jagadvijayamalla much more than Jagaddeva phonetically. 

 ■The name Jagadekamalla is a better approach to Jagad- 

 vijayamalla than Jagaddeva, and we find two kings of this 

 name in the Chalukya dynasty of Kalyani. But here we do 

 not find Udayi. The identity of Jagadvijayamalla, the father- 



1 E P i. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 203. 



1 W. W. Hunter. Statistical Account of Bengal. Vol. VIII, Rajshahi 

 and Bogra. p. 304. 



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