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.35 kings. He fell in love with a woman named Lolare and was 

 so enamoured with her that he abdicated the throne in order to 

 spend his life with his beloved. 



Himal Nagi-Arjuna is a popular love-story and its origin 

 is traced in the accounts of one of these ' ; lost ' ' kings. 



It is not only these 35 kings that Hasan gives full ac- 

 counts of, but he mentions, on the authority of the Rat- 

 nakar Purana, seven more kings later on, whose account is 

 not to be found in Kalhana 5 s Rajatarangini. According to him, 

 Ranaditya's rule did not extend over 300 years as stated by 

 Kalhana, which is, on the face of it, preposterous (see Dr. 

 Stein's introduction to Kalhana's Chronicle, page 86), but over 

 only 60 years and 3 months , and that six kings preceded , and one 

 king followed him, the account of whose rule he gives in detail, 

 but whom Kalhana has omitted. Among these 7 kings comes 

 Vainaditya, and it is noteworthy that even up to now his name 

 is a household word among the Kashmiris and he is remembered 

 as to have been a most virtuous and noble king of Kashmir. 

 There occurs in Kalhana's Rajatarangini (Book V, 97-100) 

 a temple by the name of Vainya-svamin about whose founder 

 no mention is made therein anywhere, but it shows that there 

 had been a king of the name of Vainyaditya who had built it, 



Hasan puts the date of accession of Gonanda I. as 20 years 

 before Kaliyuga (3120 B.C.), while Kalhana puts it 653 after 

 Kaliyuga (2448 B.C.) on the authority of Varahmihira's Brahat 

 Samhita. It is an admitted fact that Gonanda I. was a con- 

 temporary of Krishna, the hero of Mahabharata. Srimat Bhagwat 

 Ikadashskand says that Krishna in his last days told Udhava : 



' ' When I shall depart from this world affliction will overtake 

 it, and after sometime the Kaliyuga will also witness this, ^.e., 

 after sometime the Kaliyuga will have begun." Kalhana says 

 that the Munis (the Great Bear) were at the Maghah Nakshatra 

 when Raja Yudhishthira , a contemporary of Krishna, was 

 ruling the earth. In Srimat Bhagwat, Part XII, Chapter II, 

 is written that when the Munis were at the Maghah Nakshatra, 

 Kaliyuga commenced, and that when Krishna ascended heaven 

 the same day did Kaliyuga begin. The Kaliyuga era is 

 3101 B.C. 



Mr. Har Bilas Sarda, B.A., F.R.SJ,., Member of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, mentions in his 



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Superiority, 55 page 143-44 

 Bradhgargh Muni 



Maghah Nakshatra at the junction of the Dvapar and the 

 KaHyug. He says : — 



