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of kings of Malwa, the second of which was a Vairisifiha, the third 
a Siyaka, and the fourth Vakpatirdja alias Amoghavarsa, alias Valla- 
bhanarendra. The last made a grant of land at Ujjayini in the year 
of Samvat 1031 == A. C. 974, and subsequently another in Samvat 
1036 = A. C. 980, just when, according to the Sattara record, the 
capital of Malwa must have been in the hands of Munja or his 
immediate predecessor. Here, it is true, we have the Vairisifha of 
the Sattara plate, but his son Siyaka is followed not by Munja but 
Vakpatiraja whose alternative names were Amoghavarsha and Valla- 
bhanarendra. ‘To solve this difficulty, it has been suggested that the 
Siyaka of the Sattara, Ujjayani and Indore plates is but an alias 
of the Sindhu of the Madhukargarh monument and the Bhoja Pra- 
bandha, and that Munja is but a nickname of Vakpati alias Amogha- 
varsha; Sindhula being the alter ego of Sifharaja. It must readily 
be admitted that there is little to justify these assumptions, and it is 
hard to conceive that grave monumental records and title. deeds of real 
property should so name the same individuals as not be recognisable 
without assuming far-fetched aliases, and yet the identity of time 
and place mentioned, leaves us no alternative. The Krishnardaja of 
the Indore and Ujjayini plates could not reign at the last named 
place simultaneously with the descendants of the Vairisifiha of the 
Sattara plates, and we must therefore either admit that they were 
identical, or assume one of the two lines of kings to be mythical. 
The last is impossible, as we have to deal with donative records of 
undoubted authenticity. 
That those records allude to the same time it is not diffi- 
cult to shew. The Sattara inscription of Lakshmadeva bears 
date 1161 Samvat = A.C. 1104. His brother Naravarma was 
succeeded in Malwa by his son Yasovarma who celebrated the 
anniversary of his father’s death on the 8th of the waxing moon 
in the month of Kartika S. 1191 (A. C. 1135) by the donation 
of two villages to a Brahman of some sanctity. This grant was 
subsequently ratified by his son Jayavarma on the 15th of the wax- 
ing moon in the month of Sravana 8. 1200 = i6th July, A. C. 
edly misinterpreted ;” but unfortunately for his predecessors he frequently 
misinterprets where they were correct. One notable instance of this occurs 
at page 210 where “ unsteady as a drop of water on a lotus leat” of Colebrooke 
having been converted into “ uncertain as a bead of water on the petal of a lotus,” 
the idea of unsteadiness has been entirely lost ; since it is only on the leaf of the 
lotus that water is tremulous and not on its petals. 
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