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1862.] Vestiges of Three Royal Lines of Kanyalcubja , Sfc. 
have borrowed a couplet from the former; or the former,from the latter: 
and Bana may have introduced, quotationwise, into his Harsha-charita, 
from a work not his own, the fatalistic verses of the Ratndvali, How¬ 
ever all this may have been, it is scarcely questionable, that the Ratnd- 
vali, the JTagdnanda , and the Llarsha-cliarita , were produced in the 
seventh century, and at the court of Harsha of Kanauj ; and it will, 
perhaps, still be proved, that the first and the third were from the 
pen of one and the same person.* 
“ The mere question,” observes Dr. Rowland Williams, “ whether 
the court at which Kalidasa flourished is that of Vikramaditya, at 
[in] Malava, 56 B. C., or that of another prince, at Ujjayini, [ ? ] 
nearly a thousand years later, shows the uncertainty of most things 
in Indian literature.”f A Kalidasa, and indubitably the greater 
Kalidasa, being noted with eulogy by Bana,| it will not answer, any 
longer, to think of bringing him down to the days of Bhoja of 
Dhara.§ Indeed, no good cause has as yet been produced for 
rejecting the Indian tradition, that Kalidasa antedated the Christian 
era. 
One poet more remains, whose connexion with Kanauj may be 
counted a certainty. I mean Bajas'ekhara, author of the Viddha- 
s' ala-bhanjikd, of the Rrachanda-pdndava , or Rdla-bhdrata , of til eRdla- 
ramdyana, || and of the Karjpura-manjari. In all four works, he speaks of 
his patron as being Mahendrapala, of the city of Mahodaya. Mahendra- 
pala is also called Mahipala ; and his father, Nirbhayanarendra. To the 
by the shafts of Ananga. Albeit a guardian in name , thou dost not defend. 
Hypocritically art thou compassionate. Who is more extremely cruel than 
tehou ?’ May the Buddha, victorious over his passions, who was thus enviously 
addressed by the mistresses of Mara, protect you.” 
Jina is the generic appellation of any Buddha ; but here, I think, the word 
is the subject of a paronomasia. 
* S'itikantha, in his commentary on the Kavya-prahas'a , the Kdoya-pralcds'a- 
nidars'ana , gives Bana, not Dhavaka, as Mammata’s name of the poet who was 
enriched by Harsha. He does not speak of the Ratndvali as being the work 
which brought gain to the poet; but the omission is supplied by other annota¬ 
tors, such as Vaidyanatlia, Jayarama, and Nages'a. See the Preface to the 
VdsavadaUd , p. 16, foot-note. 
t P. 287 of Christianity and Hinduism. Cambridge: 1856. 
X See the Preface to the Yasavadatta, pp. 14, 15, foot-note. 
§ It is high time to give up speaking of this prince as a great patron of litera¬ 
ture. His pretensions to be so considered rest on the frailest foundation pos¬ 
sible. 
|| Professor Wilson knew it by a reference only. I have seen a complete 
copy ; the property of Esoba S'astrin, of Saugor. It is in ten acts. 
