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27. Sundarsena— 2082-2041 B.C. 



Indrasena's son, Sundarsena, sat on the throne in 2082 B.C. 

 He indulged in debauchery, and the people also were demoral- 

 ized to the highest degree. From the time of Harnanideva, 

 each successive ruler was a debauchee. The people had become 

 addicted to lying, drinking, and gambling. They had no moral 

 sense and were behaving like brutes. Then appeared a hermit, 

 a potter by profession, whose name was Nanda Gupta. He 

 preached to the people inhabiting the city of Sandimatnagar, 

 exhorting them against sinful deeds, but nobody would listen 

 to him ; on the contrary, he was ridiculed and molested. The 

 potter then took refuge on a hill which is now called Kralasan- 

 gar or potter's hill. One night a destructive earthquake occur- 

 red by which the earth in the middle of the city was rift and 

 water gushed out in a flood and soon submerged the whole city. 

 By the same earthquake a Ipioll of the hill at Baramulla near 

 Khadanyar tumbled down, which choked the outlet of the river 

 Jhelum and, consequently, the water rose high at once and 

 drowned the whole city together with its king and the inhabi- 

 tants. This submerged city forms the bed of the Vular Lake. 



Sundersena reigned for 41 years ; and with him ended the 

 Pandava dynasty, 23 descendants of which ruled for nearly 

 one thousand years in Kashmir. After this there was no king in 

 Kashmir for an interval of two months. Those who had survived 

 the deluge by taking shelter on high places on the foot of the 

 adjacent hills, came together and elected Lava, who was a 

 relative of the ruler of Malwah and was a Jagir holder at Lolab, as 

 king of Kashmir. 



The foregoing 23 kings of Pandava dynasty are among the 

 35 so-called lost kings of Kashmir. Kalhana says that after 

 Gonanda II. to the time when Lava ascended the throne these 

 35 kings have ruled, but according to Hasan, on the authority of 

 Ratnakar, it is not so. After Sundersena, the 23rd of these kings, 

 Lava has come to the throne, and then after the successive 

 reigns of 7 kings, the last of whom was Sachinara, the remaining 

 twelve kings out of these 35 ruled over the land. 



Chapter IV. 

 28. Lava— 2041-1981 B.C. 



Lava was crowned king of Kashmir by the burgesses of 

 the country in 2041 B.C. He was a powerful ruler and held 

 the frontiers quiet and free from foreign aggression. He founded 

 a large city, named Lolau, in the Lolab valley, which contained 

 eighty-four lakhs of houses according to Kalhana, but eighty 

 thousand according to Ratnakar. He bestowed on the Brah- 

 mans the village Levara now called Levar, on the Liddar river. 

 He reigned for 60 vears. 



