1893.] Hara Prasad Sliastri — Old Nepalese Manuscripts. 251 
Five leaves, from three to seven, are missing. The hook is in other 
respects complete, and it affords many readings which are much better 
than those found in the Calcutta editions of the work. 
The hook contains some hints about the time when it was composed 
in the following couplet : — 
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*rtbasr uuguJtfUJnsr ?rpNr 
M ahipala has been put down by Cunningham as the 1 1th king of 
the Pala dynasty whose reign commenced in the year 1015. But the 
question is who the Karnatas, mentioned here, were ? Are they the 
people of Karnata, or do they belong to the dynasty of Karnatas who 
reigned in Mithila and Nepal for a long time in the next two centuries. 
On page 99, Yol. I. of South Indian Inscriptions, Dr. Hultzsch speaks 
of a Mahipala Deva whose dominions extended to the sea, and from 
whom eleven elephants were wrested by Rajendra Chora Deva of the 
Suryavamsa, who reigned from A. D. 1022 to 1063. This is Mahipala 
of Magadha, who reigned from 1015 to 1040. The Palas made exten- 
sive conquests at this period of their existence. One of their dynasty 
has been placed by Albiruni on the throne of Kanauj about this 
period, 1020. There is every probability of the Mahipala mentioned in 
Chandakau^ika being the same person as the Mahipala of 1015 to 1040. 
He had to fight with a South Indian Prince — a Karnata. The Karnatas 
were the enemies of Hemanta Sena the great grand-father of Ballala 
Sena. Hemanta retired to a place on the Bhagirathi, in Bengal, after a 
life-long contest with the Karnatas, and his grandson, Vijaya, is said to 
have defeated Nanya Deva, the founder of the Karnataka dynasty of 
Nepal. (Epigr. Ind., Yol. I.). These reigned in Nepal for several 
generations (see Bendall’s Catalogue) and the Maitliila King under 
whose patronage Chandesvara wrote his Smriti works and led his 
victorious armies to Nopal, also belonged to the Karnataka dynasty. 
(See Eggeling’s Cat. I. O. L. MSS.) 
The work was very popular at Mahipala’s court where a nobleman 
named Kartika gave the author Arya Kshemisvara a large quantity of 
gold, silver, and land, as appears from the last verse. 
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