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ing his low origin, appears to have been a man of firmness and activity. 

 The young prince Bhimagupta betraying, as he advanced in years, some 

 indications of an independent spirit, was now removed from the throne, 

 and privately put to death. Kerdama Raja and several of the leading men, 

 suffered the same fate, and the Brahmans who had saved the life of Tun- 

 ga Were thrown by him into prison, probably to compel them to refund 

 the reward of their late mediation. Seriously alarmed for their safety, the 

 nobles now called to their aid the Prince Prithivipala, who marched 

 with his troops to their aid, and occupied the capital. Tung a, however, 

 foiled his adversaries : advancing upon the city with a large force, he set 

 the suburbs on fire, and cutting off the retreat of the enemy, effected the 

 destruction of a great part of their army. Prithivipala* was compelled 

 to submit to Tunga, and to purchase his safety by engaging to pay tribute 

 to the sovereign of Cashmir 



The transaction thus described, is the last instance of civil dissension 

 that seems to have occurred under the reign of Didda Ran! : triumphant 

 over both foreign and domestic foes, she was now at leisure to regulate 

 the succession to the kingdom, and adopted Sangramadeva, the son of 

 her brother Udaya Raja, as her associate in the government, and as the 

 future supreme ruler of Cashmir. This was the last act of her life, and is 

 the last event recorded by our author, Avhose history closes with the death of 

 Didda Rani, and accession of Sangramadeva in the 79th year of the 

 c v. Cashmirian cycle, or the year of our Lord 1025, and after the queen had 



held the sole sovereignty of the country for three and twenty years. 



* The territory governed by this prince is not named : he might in fact have not yet been in pos- 

 session of any, as the son only of the sovereign of Lahore, Anandapala, whose successor about the date 

 of the above events, is named by Ferishta, Pitterugepal. Dow, i. 58. It must be observed however that 

 if the dates of our history and the Mahommedan history accorded, we should have had in the former, 

 some notice of the repeated visits to Cashmir paid by Mahmood in 1005, 1015 and 1018; the history of 

 falkana coming down to 1025 : one or other however may err by a few years, if indeed the error is not 

 as much of facts as of dates. The author of the Tabcal Acheri states indeed that Mahmoud was repeat- 

 edly foiled in his attempts to penetrate into Cashmir. 



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