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first the poet was preceptor.* If Nirbhayanarendra was the title 

 of the Bhoja I. of the Kanauj copper-plate, whose son was 

 Mahendrapala, it cannot be that this Rajas'ekhara compiled and sup- 

 plemented the Bilahari inscription,! which I have assigned, but with 

 much hesitation, to the early part of the twelfth century. 

 Inscription referred to at p. 5. 



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* In the Viddha-sdla hhanjiJcd, Mahendrapala is called yuvardja; and the 

 terms ydydvara and dauhiki, perhaps " maintainer of a sacrificial hearth" and 

 " son of Duhika," are there applied to Iiajas'ekhara. 



Of Rajas'ekhara, Professor Wilson has said, with the Prachanda-pdndava before 

 him : " He is here described as a poet who occupies that rank in the literature 

 of the day which Valmiki, Vjasa, Bhartrihari, and Bhavabhuti, have severally- 

 filled. ***** The sutradhdra observes, of the assembly, that it is formed 

 of the learned men of the great city of Mahodaya, or the great Udaya ; possibly 

 Udayapur, the princes of which city affect to trace their descent from Kama. 

 The modern city of Udayapur, however, was not founded before the sixteenth 

 century ; and the name must be applied to some other place, unless it be no 

 more than a title meaning the very splendid or fortunate. We cannot doubt 

 the long prior existence of the drama, from the mention made of it, or of its 

 author, in the works to which reference is made in the preceding article, and to 

 which we may add the Kdvya-prakds'a, a work probably anterior to the founda- 

 tion of the modern Udayapur. Mahodaya may be the origin of the name of 

 Mahoba, a city of which extensive ruins remain, and of which the history is 

 little known." Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, second edition, 

 Vol. IT., pp. 361, 362. 



The Prachanda-pdndava is not mentioned in the Kdvya-prakds'a : but the 

 Karpura-snanjari is. As for Mahodaya, and its identity with Kanauj, the Professor 

 forgot here to look into his own dictionary. Further, he has foisted in Vjasa ; 

 and he has arbitrarily altered Bhartrimentha into Bhartrihari : 



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" Of yore there was a poet sprung from a white-ant-hill (valmika). Subse- 

 quently he became Bhartrimentha; and, again, he existed as Bhavabhuti. The 

 same is now Iiajas'ekhara." 



For the story of Valmiki's resurrection from a termite-mound, see this 

 Journal, for 1852, pp. 494-498. 



A specimen of Bbartrimentha's poetry is extracted in the S' drngadhara- 

 paddhati ; with two specimens of Mentha's. 



f See p. 321 of the preceding volume of this Journal. 



% The visarga, as obviously being required, has been supplied. The -g has 

 been inserted by conjecture : but the conjunct in "f^T could not but at once 

 suggest it. 



