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bitten by the dogs, torn by the dogs. It is difficult to travel in 
Ladha (6).”! This Ladha has ees — identified with 
Radha and Subbhabhami with Suhm Va hea so graphi- 
cally described, is the rough jungly pax on the west. Further- 
more, in the fourth u ee pannavand, the Ariyas or sacred lands 
included Kodivarisam va Ladha (variant, Lata)? by which is 
probably to be understood Radha. 
Again in Dipavamsa (Ch. IX) and Mahavamsa, the Ceylonese 
Bud 
Inc eyl sictstain dhistic chronicles of se 4th and 5th 
chronicles, 
Simhapura in Lala. This Lala has been, on good grounds, identi- 
fied with Radha.* So these traditions, Jaina and Buddhistic, 
about Radha existed before the birth of Christ; and if the 
traditions have any historical basis, a gee in a East India with 
this name existed in the fifth century 'B C. a 
Curiously enough, the name is not tr noe in the epics 
fanless hidden under some alia , Karvvata or Lata), or in 
any Sanskrit records before the tenth contary As ae The earliest 
mention is in a ajuraho inscription, 
SEG EE yori where the wives of ae kings of Kajici, 
dhra, Radha and Anga are said to have been imprisoned by 
the Chandella Dhaagadeva (middle of the tenth century).° ‘T’he 
esariv r 
Ranastra and Uttira-Ladam (of Mahipala?), This alleged con- 
quest of south and north Radha took place before the twelfth year 
and ater the tenth year of the king, 7.e., between 1021-1023 A.D. 
e Ranagira introduces a king of a new dynasty, ana 
enewit at on y in the genealogical lists of Bengal match-maker 
n the drama Prabodha-candr-odaya of Krsna Misra jane 
ning of ‘twelfth century), the tract Daksina- vpnat ih mentioned 
twice (Canto II, pp. 52 and 59, after vv. 2 and 8),8 he Radha- 
purt is said to be in Gauda (p. Do, Ve ey ae fistapadha s Brah- 

i BB, XX, Bel, spr 8, Lesson 3, pp. 84-5. 
2 S.B.E, XXII, Bk. I, Lect. 8, Lesson 3, p. 84, Jacobi’s note 1. 
3 Weber, Sacred ritheceass ‘of the Satis nas, Ina. d. Ant., »p. 375. Is 
Kodivarisam s K Piers a oat f Pondra-v ego ? 
4 Burnouf, E. Muller, Ind. Ant. XI, 198, ier’ XII. 65; E. Kuhn, Ind. 
Ant. XII, pp. 54-5 ; Jacobi, p. note 1 (above). The cael of Vijaya is 
said to have _— a princess of Vanga. 
5 Ep, Ind., I, 138. 
8 South- Tdtan ag teaae Vol. I, p. 96; IT, 106-7. 
1 According to t e Kula-Paiijikas of the match-makers, the following 
kings with the — Sire r reigned :—Adisira, Bhisira, Ksitisira, Avanisira, 
seems Dharasira, Ranasira.—@aude Brahmana 
Radha iso. oer in the Bhovanesvara inscription of Vasudeva 
temple, Réaha-sriy ah (1 3, Ep. Ind., VI. 205), and the —— Petre plates 
of Orissa, Radha-Var endra- Yavoni® (5. toe &.; 1896, pp. 144 
8 Daksina- Radhé-prade ga° (N.S.P. Ed). 
