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Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kan,y a 1cuhja, §c. [No. 1, 
first the poet was preceptor.* If Nirbhayanarendra was the title 
of the Bhoja I. of the Kanauj copper-plate, whose son was 
Mahendrapala, it cannot he that this Rajas ekhara compiled and sup¬ 
plemented the Bilahari inscription,! which I have assigned, hut with 
much hesitation, to the early part of the twelfth century. 
Inscription referred to at p. 5. 
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* In the Viddha-sdlabhanjiJca, Mahendrapala is called yuvardja; and the 
terms yayavara and dauhilci , perhaps “ maintainer of a sacrificial hearth” and 
“ son ot Duhika,” are there applied to Kajas'ekhara. 
Of Kajas'ekhara, Professor Wilson has said, with the Prachanda-pandava before 
him : “ He is here described as a poet who occupies that rank in the literature 
of the day which Yalmiki, Yyasa, Bhartrihari, and Bhavabhuti, have severally 
filled. ***** The siUradhara observes, of the assembly, that it is formed 
of the learned men of the great city of Mahodaya, or the great Udaya ; possibly 
Udayapur, the princes of which city affect to trace their descent from Kama. 
The modern city of Udayapur, however, was not founded before the sixteenth 
century ; and the name must be applied to some other place, unless it be no 
more than a title meaning the very splendid or fortunate. We cannot doubt 
the long prior existence of the drama, from the mention made of it, or of its 
author, in the works to which reference is made in the preceding article, and to 
which we may add the Kavya-prakas*a, a work probably anterior to the founda¬ 
tion of the modern Udayapur. Mahodaya may be the origin of the name of 
Mahoba, a city of which extensive ruins remain, and of which the history is 
little known.” Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus , second edition, 
Yol. II., pp. 361, 362. 
The Prachanda-pandava is not mentioned in the Kavya-prakas' a : but the 
Karpura-snanjari is. As for Mahodaya, and its identity with Kanauj, the Professor 
forgot here to look into his own dictionary. Further, he has foisted in Yyasa ; 
and he has arbitrarily altered Bhartrimentha into Bhartrihari: 
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<c Of yore there was a poet sprung from a white-ant-hill (valmtka). Subse¬ 
quently he became Bhartrimentha; and, again, he existed as Bhavabhuti. The 
same is now Kajas'ekhara.” 
For the story of Yalmiki’s resurrection from a termite-mound, see this 
Journal, for 1852, pp. 494-498. 
A specimen of Bbartrimentha’s poetry is extracted in the S'drnyadhara- 
paddhati; with two specimens of Mentha’s, 
f See p. 321 of the preceding volume of this Journal. 
j The visarya , as obviously being required, has been supplied. The •sgj has 
been inserted by conjecture : but the conjunct in could not but at once 
suggest it. 
