M HISTORY OF CASHMIR. 



waters of which were rendered purer by the ingredient : after a short resi- 

 dence at Allahabad he dismissed his attendants, and determined to seek his 

 fortune by himself. 



The adventures of Jayapira at Paundraverdhana* then the residence 

 of Jayanta, king of Gaur, are the next subjects of our original, and are 

 narrated with a prolixity that we need not emulate; he arrived alone and in 

 bumble attire at the city, where his dignified person and manner, attracted 

 the notice of one of the female dancers of a temple, by whom he was tak- 

 en home and supported: whilst in this situation he killed in private encoun- 

 ter a lion that had alarmed the whole city, and having in the conflict lost 

 one of his bracelets, on which his name was inscribed, he Avas thence dis- 

 covered by the emissaries of Jayanta, and carried before that monarch; 

 his reception was highly favourable. Jayanta gave him his daughter in 

 marriage, and furnished him with an army for the recovery of his paternal 

 dominions, to which he was also invited by Deva Serma, the son of Mitra 

 Serbia; deputed for that purpose by the nobles of Cashmir: he accordingly 

 set forth on his return, the goddess of victory in his van ; and in his rear, the 

 two terrestrial goddesses, Calydnandd, the princess his wife, and Camald the 

 dancer, whom out of gratitude he bad also espoused : at a village called 

 Susticala on the borders of Cashmir, he was opposed by the usurper, and a 

 series of conflicts ensued without being attended, for several days, with any 

 decisive result; at last Srideva, a Chanddla, the head-man of a village, who 

 had joined the king, made his way to the spot where Jajja was stationed, 

 and struck him from off his horse with a stone. Jajja fell dead upon the 

 field, his followers fled, and Jayapira after an interval of three years was 

 again acknowledged as monarch of Cashmir. 



The cares of Jayapira were now directed to the cultivation of letters, 

 and the improvement of his kingdom : he devoted much of his time to study, 

 and made himself a proficient in Sanscrit Grammar, under Cshira, a learn- 



* A city in Beliar, it is believed, but Magadha, in that case, must have been subject to the kings 

 of Bengal, whose power about the time in question, the beginning of the ninth century, docs appear to 

 have been so extensive, (see the Mongir Grant, A. R. i. 123, and Mr. Colebrooke*s remarks on it, ix. 427.) 

 Jayanta however does not occur amongst the Pala princes, in those authorities, nor in Abulfazl's list, 

 (Ay. Ac.) unless in the latter some of the names are erroneous; a circumstance very probable. 



