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of Sandhimana was derived from the Brahman minister of Jayendra, 

 who reigned from A. D. 341 to 360, or no less than five centuries and a 

 half after Jaloka. Now the attribution of the Jyeshteswara temple to 

 Jaloka rests solely upon the authority of the following verse of the 

 Raja Tarangini, B. 1, v. 124 : — 



srf?ref ^sr^w ^nraT fec^cri i 



which is thus translated by M. Troyer : — 



" Apres avoir repandu a Srinagari la veneration du premier Rudra, 

 il se ralentit de sa ferveur pour Nandisa par 1' absence de la fontaine 

 (sacree.) 



2. In the original the word which is translated "premier Rudra," 

 is Jyeshta-Budra, a name of exactly the same meaning as Jyeshteshwara, 

 the " supreme lord," and which is used here only as a synonyme of 

 Siva, who in this same verse is likewise designated by another name, as 

 Nandisa, or " Lord of Nandi," his attendant bull. It is true that the 

 verse distinctly attributed to Jaloka the extension of the worship of 

 Jyeshteswara throughout the city of Srinagar ; and that the temple of 

 Jyeshteswara on the Takht-i-Suliman was within the bounds of the old 

 capital, which extended from the Takht-i-Suliman as far as the present 

 Panthasok to the south-east. Both the position and the name of the 

 old temple therefore agree very well with the record of the Raja Taran- 

 gini, and which is still further borne out by the undoubted antiquity 

 of the building itself. On the very same authority the Brahmans like- 

 wise ascribe the building of a temple to Nandisa, at the place now 

 called Nandymarg, behind Bij Bihara. — But as the actual erection of a 

 temple to Jyeshteswara is not distinctly mentioned, some shadow of 

 doubt must always rest upon this attribution. 



3. It would naturally be supposed that the hill must have been 

 known by the name of the temple that crowned its summit : instead of 

 which it is called Sandimana-parvata. Perhaps some part of this hill 

 may have been the scene of the burning of Sandhimana' s body ; for 

 after the cremation, when he became regenerated as Arya Raja, he is 

 said to have built on that very spot a temple named Sandheswara* 

 The belief in this miracle would have been quite sufficient for the attri- 



* Raja Tarangini, B. 2— v. 134. 



