18GI.] Decipherment of an Inscription from Chedi. 8 10 
through Gangeya.* Whether he was elder son, or whether Mtigdha- 
tunga was, is not ascertained. However this may have been, it is 
tolerably clear, that, immediately after the time of Kokalla, Chedi 
underwent partition. 
Kokalla’s grandson’s grandson, Gayakarna, married a granddaugh- 
ter of Udayaditya, sovereign of Dhara ; and the Krishnaraja whom 
Kokalla is said to have defeated in the south, t was, not impossibly, 
that lady’s ancestor.;}: Again, the Bhoja whom he is recorded to 
have vanquished in the west,§ was, without much question, one of 
the two kings of Kanauj who bore that appellation. These kings 
will be spoken of in my next paper. 
Of Mugdhatunga’s exploits we learn nothing, further than that 
he wrested Pali from the lord of Kosala.|| 
Keyuravarsha wedded a lady, Noli ala by name, of whose family a 
few particulars are specified. Her father was Avanivarman, son of 
Sadhanwan, son of Sinhavarman. Their clan was the Chaulukya. 
The Chaululcyas, it is related, arose in this wise.^f Drona, son of 
* Other issue of Kokalla were S'ankaragana, Arjuna, and Mahadevi. S'a- 
druka was, possibly, still another child of his ; but I am disposed to suspect, 
that S'adruka, if not a misdeciplierment, was the proper name of S'ankaragana, 
called Kanavigraha also. 
Mahadevi married a chieftain named Krishna, or Akalavarslia. .Fruit of tins 
union was Jagadrudra, or Jagattunga, who hud for wives his two cousins german, 
Lakshmi and Gtovindamba, daughters of S'ankaragana. The rest that I hereto- 
fore wrote of the domestic history of Jagadrudra was based on misapprehension, 
Indra, son by Lakshmi, married Dwijamba, granddaughter of Arjuna, his grand- 
uncle through both parents. 
t See the seventeenth stanza. 
j Vide p. 197, supra. 
§ See the seventeenth stanza. 
|| See the twenty-third stanza. Kosala— since there is no good ground for the 
ordinary spelling, Kos'ala — was once, to all appearance, a most extensive king- 
dom. Hut time and change seem to have abridged, by little and little, its 
ancient limits, until it became restricted, for centuries before its extinction, to 
tlie vicinity of some point of the Vindhya mountains. On the authority of an 
unpublished inscription, Kosala at onetime answered, with more or less of exact- 
ness, to the modern Chhattisgarh. It was, undoubtedly, the Pali of that prin- 
cipality, which Mugdhatunga is said to have snatched from its master. See the 
Asiatic Researches , Vol. XV., p. 504. 
The late Prolessor Wilson, in his Translation of the Vishnu-purdna, pp. 478, 
479 has written : “ There will be nine kings in the seven Kos'alas.” The original 
of this is: WfrTqf wfafSlpfl. Only in the Paura- 
nika nomenclature do we encounter this “ tract embracing the seven ICosalas 
to render the Sanskrit more strictly. What was meant by it remains to be 
settled. 
IT Other accounts of their origination are met with ; particularly in the inscrip- 
tions published by Mr. Watlieu. What follows is from the pen oi Mr. Walter 
Elliot: 
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