1847.] 



Addendum, 



61 



the raiser of the fortunes of his race ; Rajendra is an emperor who 

 enjoj-s what a predecessor won. But I chiefly rest on the first rea- 

 son. War, and illicit love, are the harmonizing marks of Kulottun- 

 ga. It does not appear that he would have cared a fig for the poetic 

 jewels of VicramadHycC s court, or the eight elephants of Krishna- 

 rayar's assembly. But Rajendra was a patron of poets ; Camhan, 

 Otta Cuttan, and, if I mistake not, Gala Megha, flourished under 

 liim. It is generally the received opinion that Hajendra Avas killed 

 by a lampoon of Camhan. He took it to heart, at all events. Kit- 

 lottunga would have chopped it to pieces with his sword, and thrown 

 it into the sea. 



Now then I may look at the foot note at p. 18 of Mr. Dowson's 

 Pamphlet. "Mr. Taylor has adopted the list with its errors. Taylor's 

 M. SS. vol. 2, p. 64." For this reason simply that I had then (in 

 the early part of 1835) nothing else to guide me, but the descriptive 

 Catalogue ; and, though I did perceive marks of careless printing, 

 yet to know whether a comma was misplaced or not, would have 

 been impossible ; and the fairest mode, beyond question, was to 

 quote just as I found the document. The M. S. since translated 

 Avas not then in my possession. 



At p. 19, we read " Professor Wilson suggests the possibility of 

 Kulottunga and Hajendra being titles of the same person ; neither 

 of these names occur in our list .: but there seems reason to suppose 

 that Hajendra was a title of the first prince in our list called Vijaya- 

 raja Aditya Varma^ I quote the passage in fairness, not having 

 the Des ; Catalogue ]\x'sX now at hand for reference. And it seems 

 needful in order to introduce another quotation, which perhaps had 

 better be put in double column, along with the passage to which, after 

 some search, I find it to refer : 



The great source of the difficulty " It is certain that there must have 



■which we shall encounter in our in- i „ 17" e 



quiry, and in comparing our M. s. been more than one Viransoren ; for 



with other notices of the Chola kings | -i t>^. j ^ i.r, - r 



arises from the indiscriminate use of ^vhlle KajencCra, who was the patrou of 



"^^^^i^^^^^i^^S^ the celebrated T^mW ^oet Camhan/x,, 



"^^S^^^^?:^^- found to have reigned, A. D. 886, we 



^^'^^I^^^u. have a Vira Soren fifth in succession 



l^i^^'i^^t^'^^a^L from Bajendra, who reigned about 



ces is given— showing three dilleront a T) QlQ We cannot sunnose with 

 names sometimes given to the same ^' ^ cannoi suppose, WUn 



individual, Page 19.' Mr. Wllson that Vira-Soren Ra- 



ja Rajendra were the same : for though both names are titular we 



