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lad before him, is defective in many respects, and that his Banga is 
a mislection of Dhanga. Thus then we have the era of Dhanga 
established by two inscriptions to be 1011 to 1019 Samvat, in the 
last year of which he committed suicide. How long before 1011 he 
had assumed the sovereignty of Kajraha, we have no means to ascer- 
tain. His panegyrist assigns him a long life of “109 autumns,” a 
good portion of which he must have spent in the exercise of his 
sovereign powers; it would not be too much, therefore, to assume 
that he reigned for at least fifty or sixty years, or Samvat 960 to 
1019 = A. D. 902 to 962.* If we allow the usual average of eighteen 
years to each reign to six of his predecessors, the founder of his 
family would be placed 852 S. = 795 A. D., and the same average to 
eight of his successors would bring down the last of his race with 
whose name we are acquainted, Madanavarma, to S. 1173 = A. D. 
1116. This would be, however, too early by two reigns, as the 
Kajraha inscription of Capt. Burt is dated “ Friday, the 3rd of the 
waxing moon in the month of Vais’akha S. 1173” = A. D. 1116 
when Jayavarma, the grandfather of Madana, caused the eulogium of 
his ancestor Dhdanga to be transcribed from an old and ill-written 
document into the “ Kakuda” or, as correctly guessed by General C. 
“ Kumuda” characters. If allowance be made for this discrepancy, 
the average of the six reigns after Dhanga would come up to 254 
years, which would be considerably more than the usual average of 
Indian reigns; but inasmuch as the chieftains of Kajraha were 
petty kings, or more probably vassals, enjoying from generation to 
generation the little principality, without being exposed to those 
vicissitudes which are incident to extensive sovereignty, their reigns 
should assimilate more to the average of human generation than 
to Indian reigns. And if this be admitted, thirty to thirty-three 
years should be assigned to each life rather than twenty-six. At 
the last named rate, which I accept to be on the safe side, Madana 
would be removed to the middle of the 12th century, and the 
chieftains of Kajraha for near four hundred years be thus arranged, 
the years being of course mere averages except in the cases of 
Dhanga and Jayavarma’s dates. 
* General Cunningham says that he has got a long inscription of Dhanga, 
dated 45 years before his death. The “109 autumns,” according to the same 
authority, is a mislection of “ upwards of a hundred autumns.” Satam samadhi- 
kam. Ante XXIX. p. 395. 
