HISTORY OF CASHM1R. 65 



the superior and subordinate princes. In the contest, Many distinguished 

 chieftains were slain, as Si vasacti and others, but the king, with the aid of 

 Samara VermI, and other leaders of note, finally prevailed, and establish- 

 ed his authority in the kingdom. 



Having thus secured himself at home, he directed his views to foreign 

 conquest, and being joined by the king of Darvabhisdra m\& other princes, 

 he led into the plains an army said to consist of nine lacs of foot, one of 

 horse, and three hundred elephants: he first subdued Prithivi Chandra 

 king of Traigerta* who having left his son in his capital, advanced to do 

 him homage, but upon beholding the immense host collected by the king, 

 he was alarmed for his personal safety, and suddenly made his escape. 

 SancaRa Verm a then rooted up the power of Alalchdna'\ king of Gurjara, 

 seizing his treasures, and kingdom, and leaving him only Tacca Dcsa. He en- 

 tirely subverted the universal supremacy which had been seized by Bhoja,£ 

 and made himself formidable to his neighbours on either side of him, the 

 kings of Darat and Turushca,\ placed between them like Aryaverta be- 

 tween the Himalaya and Vindhya mountains : on his return to Cashmir he 

 founded in Panckasatra, a city named after himself : it was constructed 

 chiefly of materials furnished by the ruins of Parihdsapur, and was distin- 

 guished by a temple dedicated to Siva as Sancara Gaurisa, and Sugait- 

 dJiesa, the latter named after the queen Sug andha, the daughter of the king 

 of the North. 



The disposition of Sancara VerMa. to accumulate wealth, degenerated 



* Part of Lahore. 



t This is a strange name : it should be that of a Musselman but the Musselman princes could not 

 have been then established in Guzerat. There is however a Guzerat in the Punjab, to which the Mo- 

 hammedans were beginning to extend themselves, aad which may be the state intended. 



\ Not in his life time it may be supposed, but Sancara Verm a flourished about half a century ear- 

 lier than has hitherto been assigned as Bhoja's date. 



^ We s*ill'have the Burds north-west of Crishmir ; the TuruSlicas should be therefore to the south- 

 east, and- they were the Ghixtiian Governors, probabdy, then dependant on the Samanian primes of 

 Bokhara.; the similo is applicable to saoh a position. 



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