1862.] Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kani/akubja, Sfc. 7 



a transcript of which I owe to Colonel Alexander Cunningham, a 

 gentleman whose name has long been most honourably identified 

 with the subject of Indian archaeology. Besides that my copy is 

 full of breaks at the beginning, the native who executed it was, 

 evidently, unable to discharge from his mind the impression, that 

 he had before him ill-written modern Devanagari. Though intend- 

 ing to prepare a facsimile, he has, in patches by the dozen, altered 

 as many as eight or ten consecutive letters, and in such sort, — 

 no uniformity being observed in his commutations,— as to produce 

 the very perfection of all that is unintelligible. It is not much that, 

 without hazard of being deceived, I have succeeded in gleaning from 

 his laborious infidelity. 



From the two opening lines of the transcript, if they were un- 

 mutilated, we might discover who preceded the first king of name 

 now legible in the inscription, — Mahendrapala. Near where he is 

 spoken of is the date 960. Next comes Bhoja, and then Mahendra- 

 pala again, with the date 964. Further on Kshitipala is mentioned ; 

 and, after him, Devapala, the date 1005 being close by. These 

 dates, I may observe, are not sufficiently particularized for one to 

 certify their era by calculation. 



Now, we have here, at least in seeming, the succession of Mahen- 

 drapala, Bhoja,* and Mahendrapala. Before the first of them, another 

 Bhoja may originally have been enrolled; and, not impossibly, we 

 have, after all, but a single Mahendrapala to enumerate. It is, then, 

 barely suggestible, that, in these kings, we meet with the progeny 

 of the Kanaujan Devas'akti. The kings of the record before us are 

 memorialized as having granted away land, and other things, by way 

 of local donaries,f in ten several years, ranging from 960 to 1025. 



* The Bhoja — whose father has been made out to be Ramachandra, — of the 

 Thanesur inscription is, manifestly, a different person from any Bhoja referred 

 to in this paper. See this Journal, for 1853, pp. 673-679. 



S'ankaravaraman, of Cashmere, is said to have seized upon the kingdom of a 

 Bhoja. Professor Wilson, who will hear of only one Bhoja, assumes, that he of 

 Dhara is intended. See the Asiatic Researches, Yol. XV., pp. 85, 86. 



t Most of them are appropriated to the service of Vishnu, — also called Nara- 

 yana, and Chakraswamin, — who has, throughout the deeds, the title of bhattaraka. 

 But other deities, great and small, are not forgotten ; as S'iva, Uma, Vamana, 

 Vais'wanara, Tribhnvanaswamin, — whoever he was, — and the obsolete Vandu- 

 kiya and Bhailaswamin. 



I have now produced two authorities for Chakraswamin, to add to Albirunf, 

 cited by Messrs. Boehtlingk and Rotb, in their Sanskrit-wbrterbuch. See the 

 Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. VII., p. 27, and my note at p. 

 42, ibid. 



