1862.] Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kanyalcubja, Sfc. 5 



Harsha's immediate successors in empire have still to reveal them- 

 selves. It cannot have been a short catalogue of names that con- 

 nected his own with those of the next known masters of Kanauj. 

 Of these persons we catch a glimpse in an inscription* of which a 

 redeciperment will conclude this paper. For two facsimiles of the 

 original I am indebted to the kindness of our Secretary. The kings, 

 and their consorts, with whom that document brings us acquainted, 

 are as follows : 



Kings. Queens. 



I. Devas'akti.f Bhiiyika, 



II. Vatsaraja, son of D. Sundari. 



III. Nagabhata, son of V. Mahisata. 



IV. Eamabhadra, son of 1ST. Appa. 



V. Bhoja I., son of R. Chandrabhattarika. 



VI, Mahendrapala, son of B. Dehanaga and Mahidevi, mo- 



VII. Bhoja II., son of M. thers, respectively, of Nos. 



VIII. Vinayakapala, son of M. VII. and VIII. 



Of these, Nos. I, and VII. are called Vaishnavas ; No. II., a 

 Mahes'wara; Nos. III., V., and VI., devotees of Bhagavati; and 

 Nos. IV. and VIII., heliolators. 



Since Vinayakapala bestowed away land in close proximity to 

 Benares, J we have proof, that, still in his time, which may have 

 been as late as the middle of the eleventh century, the jurisdiction of 

 Kanauj § was of great compass. 



* It has already been printed in this Journal, for 1848, Part I,, p. 71. For 

 Professor Lassen's groundless assignment to Udayapura of the kings with whom 

 it is concerned, see rny paper at pp. 195 — 210 of the last volume of this Journal. 



t Every king is styled, in the original, deva, and every queen, devi, — or 6ebs 

 and -flea; — a mode of nomenclature which the later Greek-speaking people 

 employed very generally, and the Romans, to some extent, in the same way. 

 The author of the Curiosities of Literature, had he read excursively in the clas- 

 sical languages of Europe, must have modified his chapter on the " Titles of 

 Sovereigns." 



X We are informed, that the village of Tikkarika, the object of donation, was 

 situate in the bhukti of Pratishtliana, in the vishaya of Varannsi. 



Pratishtliana once designated, no less than other places, what is now Allahabad. 

 It was," I apprehend, at this locality, characterized — to distinguish it from other 

 Pratishthanas, — as S'ris'a's, or Vishnu's, Pratishtliana, that Govindachandra, of 

 Kanauj, bathed in the Ganges, previously to issuing a patent which, a few years 

 ago, was still in existence. See this Journal, for 1858, p 248. Bhukti appears as a 

 synonyme of llioga. Vide ibid., for 1861, p. 197. Tikkarika lay on the high road 

 opposite Kas'i. There is a Tikari about two miles from Benares, across the river. 



Thus, at a period when Kasi was, presumably, the more popular name of the 

 city of Benares, the circumjacent territory was known as Vaianasi. 



§ In the seventh century, the principality of Kanauj was one of four into 

 which north-eastern Hindusthan was distributed. Albiruni gives Madhya-des'a, 



