G Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of KanyaJcuhja, Sfc. [No. 1, 



In Manor, or Maholi, as the traditionary capital of a Raja Bhoja, 

 and in Bhojapura, near Farrukhabad, we possibly have traces of one 

 or other of the Bhojas mentioned above.* 



If Devas'akti had not been a usurper, Vinayakapala would natur- 

 ally have deduced his ancestry from a more remote point than that 

 at which he is seen to begin his family -tree. 



In some part of the State of Grwalior there exists a huge inscription,f 



" the middle country," as its alternative name. See Sir H. M. Elliot's Biblio- 

 graphical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan India, Vol. I., p. 34. 



In the tenth century, the city of Kanauj is said to have been the first city in 

 all India. 



Kanauj, according to the Haima-Jcos' a, IV., 39, 40, was denominated Gadhi- 

 pura, Kanyakubja, Kanyakubja, Kaus'a, Kus'asthala, and Mahodaya. I have 

 seen all these names, Kaus'a excepted, in other books, or in inscriptions. The 

 Harsha-charita calls Kanauj Kus'asthala. In the inscription under notice we 

 have Mahodaya. 



Of the various forms of the word from which Kanauj, Kanoj, or Kanawaj is 

 corrupted, the most usual, in old manuscripts and inscriptions, is Kanyakubja. 

 Kanyakubja likewise occurs, and with the countenance of the scholiast on the 

 Haima-lcos' a ; and so, in the Dwinipa-Jcos' a, does Kanyakubja. 



Mahoba, for numerous reasons, is not to be thought of as the modern repre- 

 sentative of Mahodaya. Nor is Maudha ; nor is Mahedii. For indications 

 guiding me to these conclusions, I have to thank Mr. Henry Dashwood, Judge 

 of Banda. 



For what looks like Mahodaya, as the name of a woman, a Thakkuranf, see the 

 Asiatic Researches, Vol. XV., second inscription at the end, ninth line. 



The Hindu lexicographers apprize us, that Pataliputra had a second appella- 

 tion, that of Kusamapura. Hiouen-Thsang additionally declares, that the latter 

 is the older. The late Professor Wilson, speaking of the Pushpapura of Dandin, 

 says : " The term Pushpapura, the Flower-city, is synonymous with Kusumapura, 

 and is essentially the same with what should probably be the correct reading, 

 Patalipura, the Trumpet-flower city. A legend as old as the eleventh century, 

 being narrated in the Kathd-sarit-sdgara, published and translated by Mr. 

 Bioekhaus, has been invented, to account for the name Pataliputra; but this 

 has evidently been suggested by the corruption of the name, and does not ac- 

 count for it. That Patna was called Kusumapura, the Flower-city, at a late 

 period, we know from the Chinese-Buddhist travellers, through whom the name 

 Ku-su-mo-pu-lo became familiar to their countrymen." Das' a-kumdra-charita, 

 Introduction, p. 8. 



Had Professor Wilson any doubt, when he used the expression " at a late 

 period," that Hiouen-Thsang came to India in the seventh century ? 



But of Kanauj also, according to the Chinese pilgrim, Kusamapura was the 

 more ancient designation. In support of this statement, Hindu authority is 

 still wanting. See Voyages, &c, Vol. I., p 137 ; and Vol. II., pp. 224, 410. 



* Maholi is on the river Gumti, fifty-five miles north-east from Kanauj. 

 Col. R. R. W. Ellis has it, that Bhoja reigned there in Samvat 1011, which 

 corresponds to A. D. 954 : but the authority for this statement is not very con- 

 vincing. If the Bhojapura near Farrukhabad was named from a king of Kanauj, 

 his memory has quite perished in what was once his own kingdom ; seeing that 

 the pandits of Bhojapura confound him with Bhoja of Dhara. See pp. 173, 

 175, 179, and 185 of Col. Ellis's Legendary Chronicles of the Buildings of Ancient 

 India, and Genealogical Lists of the Rajput and Brahmin Tribes. This sugges- 

 tive volume was printed, for private circulation, at Delhi, in 1854. 



f It is in forty-six lines, each of which, measuring about two yards long, con- 

 tains, or contained, not far from two hundred and twenty-five characters. 



