200 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1910. 



the city of Srinagar, it so happened that his boat capsized and 

 both he and the book were thrown into the water, he being 

 rescued and saved but without the book. Hasan is now dead , 

 and it is not known from which man at Rawalpindi he had 



obtained the copy. 



Be that as it may, the accounts given by him of these 

 lost kings do not appear to be unfounded. There are legends 

 current among the people which quite coincide with these 

 accounts — legends of which there is no mention whatever in 

 Kalhana's Rajatarangini. 



For instance, the Kashmiris say that kings belonging to 

 the Pandava dynasty have ruled over Kashmir ; and 23 of these 

 4 ' lost ' ' kings do belong to the Pandava dynasty. The ruins 

 on the Mart and plateau are popularly called Pandav-Lar or 

 the building of the Pandavas, and the king, who according to 

 Hasan built it, is Ramadeva, one of the descendants of Pan- 

 davas. 



Dr. Stein says that it was built by Lalitaditya on the 

 authority of verse 192 of Book IV of the Rajatarangini, 

 but I consulted several learned Pandits in Kashmir and they are 

 unanimous in saying that he has erroneously interpreted the 

 text. 



The text is 



JTmUf^JTgcf <ncTT SfTWT ^tcf ^ IT^H n 



t 



wing 



" That liberal (king) built the wonderful (shrine) of Mar- 

 tanda with its massive walls of stone within a lofty enclosure 

 (prdsdddntar) and its town swelling with grapes. 59 



Mr. J. H. Marshall, the Archaeological Superintendent 

 of the Frontier Circle (Government of India), also acknowledges 

 in a note on the Archaeological work in Kashmir that Dr. Stein's 

 rendering is doubtful. He says 



•■ Now the manifest difficulty with Dr. Stein's translation 

 is his supplying of the word for "Shrine." If the passage 

 had occurred in a list of Lalitaditya' s foundations or in any 

 similar context where the word mandiram or some equivalent 

 could have been drawn naturally from the preceding stanzas, 

 its omission here would be nothing unusual and would not have 

 constituted a difficulty. But unfortunately the stanza im- 

 mediately preceding IV, 192 has nothing to do with tfemples, but 

 recounts merely certain irrigation works. It is true that IV, 

 190 does sneak of the ereo.tion nf a tpmnla Knf i*. ic *t Kp«t hold 



carry 



or ' ' rampart , ' ' 



word prdkdra is enclosure 



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some 



pro 



