114 Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. [No. 2, 



tion is so well-known, that their names need not be repeated.* Of 

 their family we are here furnished with a few facts additional to 

 those which I have detailed on former occasions. t Gangeya died at 

 Prayaga, or Allahabad ;J and we are led to infer, that his wives, 

 amounting, in round numbers, to a hundred, underwent cremation 

 with the mortal remains of their lord.§ Kama built the city of 

 Karnavati.|| The consort of Gayakarna, or Gayakarna, was Alhana ; 



inscription, less ancient, and yet, what from discontinuity and effacement, no 

 longer intelligible. It mentions a Raja Indra. 



* An inedited inscription, much mutilated, which I have very lately examined 

 at Udayapura, in Gwalior, sets forth, that Vakpati, — whom 1 know to have been 

 the same with Munja, — defeated Yuvaraja, and took possession of Tripura. 

 Vakpati lived in the tenth century ; and a synchronism of some value is thus 

 established. I must, however, choose a time of leisure to enlarge upon its con- 

 sequences. 



But the inscription adverted to settles one point to which I cannot, here forego 

 reference. The father of Bhoja of Dhara was Sindhu, not Sinha ; and he i3 called 

 younger brother of Vakpati, not elder brother. Vakpati had issue in Vairisinha ; 

 and Vairisinha had a son, Harsha. It seems probable, that the accession of 

 Bhoja to the throne was owing to their having pre-deceased him. 



At p. 205 of last year's Journal, building on what now turn out to be imper- 

 fect and erroneous data regarding the rulers of Malava, where I have spoken 

 of Vakpati as being cousin-german to Bhoja, I ought to have written " first cousin 

 once removed." But my new inscription shows, as has been seen, that he was 

 Bhoja's paternal uncle. Nor was Vakpati's kingdom distinct from that after- 

 wards subject to his nephew. Nor, again, is it now to be surmised, by way of 

 consequence, that Bhoja's sway extended over less than the whole of Malava. 



1 return to the king Krishna spoken of two notes back. And who was he ? 

 Bhoja's grandfather's grandfather, Krishna, or Upendra, long preceded the 

 presumed founder of the last Chedian dynasty, Yuvaraja, who is reported to 

 have been routed by Bhoja's uncle, Vakpati. It seems more likely, that we 

 have here to do with the master of a kingdom intermediate to Chedi and Malava, 

 and which was eventually absorbed by the latter. 



Kokalla, of Chedi, son of the Yuvaraja just mentioned, is said to have defeated 

 a Baja Krishna in the south. A short time ago I expressed the opinion, that 

 this Krishna "was, not impossibly," that ancestor of Bhoja with whom, as my 

 fresh facts admonish, it is impossible to identify him. Future investigation may 

 establish, that he was one with the Krishna of the Bhelsa inscription. 



Of Kokalla I further wrote : " Again, the Bhoja whom he is recorded to have 

 vanquished in the west, was, without much question, one of the two kings of 

 Kanauj who bore that appellation." As Vakpati was of the same age with 

 Yuvaraja, we may conclude, that it was Bhoja of Malava, Vakpati's nephew, 

 against whom Kokalla, son of Yuvaraja, claims to have been successful. See 

 last year's Journal, p. 



t See the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. VI., pp. 499 — 537 ; 

 and this Journal for 1861, p. 318. 



X Col. Wilford, — Asiatic Researches,^ ol. IX., p. 108, — claiming the authority 

 of a copper-plate grant for what he states, alleges, that Gangeya had the title of 

 Vijayakantaka, and that " he died in a loathsome dungeon." This seems doubt- 

 ful. Facts of such a nature would scarcely be spoken of, by an Indian panegy- 

 rist, of any one related to the magnate he is engaged in belauding. 



§ See the eleventh stanza of the following inscription. 



|| In a literal translation, the twelfth stanza is as follows : " By whom, Kama, 

 was established, on earth, a realm of Brahma, known as Karnavati ; the foremost 



