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Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. [No. 2, 
tion is so well-known, that their names need* not be repeated.* Of 
their family we are here furnished with a few facts additional to 
those which I have detailed on former occasions.t Gangeya died at 
Prayaga, or Allahabad; J and we are led to infer, that his wives, 
amounting, in round numbers, to a hundred, underwent cremation 
with the mortal remains of their lord.§ Karna built the city of 
Karnavati.|j The consort of Gayakarna, or Gayakarna, was Alhana; 
inscription, less ancient, and yet, what from discontinuity and effacement, no 
longer intelligible. It mentions a Raja Indra. 
* An inedited inscription, much mutilated, which I have very lately examined 
at Udayapura, in Gwalior, sets forth, that Vakpati,—whom I know to have been 
the same with Munja,—defeated Yuvaraja, and took possession of Tripura. 
Vakpati lived in the tenth century; and a synchronism of some value is thus 
established. I must, however, choose a time of leisure to enlarge upon its con¬ 
sequences. 
But the inscription adverted to settles one point to which I cannot here forego 
reference. The father of Bhoja of Dhara was Sindhu, not Sinlia ; and he is called 
younger brother of Yakpati, not elder brother. Vakpati had issue in Vairisinha ; 
and Yairisinha had a son, Harsha. It seems probable, that the accession of 
Bhoja to the throne was owing to their having pre-deceased him. 
At p. 205 of last year’s Journal, building on what now turn out to be imper¬ 
fect and erroneous data regarding the rulers of Malava, where I have spoken 
of Yakpati as being cousin-german to Bhoja, I ought to have written “first cousin 
once removed.” But my new inscription shows, as has been seen, that he wa3 
Bhoja’s paternal uncle. Nor was Vakpati’s kingdom distinct from that after¬ 
wards subject to his nephew. Nor, again, is it now to be surmised, by way of 
consequence, that Bhoja’s sway extended over less than the whole of Malava. 
1 return to the king Krishna spoken of two notes back. And who was he? 
Bhoja’s grandfather’s grandfather, Krishna, or Upendra, long preceded the 
presumed founder of the last Chedian dynasty, Yuvaraja, who is reported to 
have been routed by Bhoja’s uncle, Vakpati. It seems more likely, that we 
have here to do with the master of a kingdom intermediate to Chedi and Malava, 
and which was eventually absorbed by the latter. 
Kokalla, of Chedi, son of the Yuvaraja just mentioned, is said to have defeated 
a Raja Krishna in the south. A short time ago I expressed the opinion, that 
this Krishna “was, not impossibly,” that ancestor of Bhoja with whom, as my 
fresh facts admonish, it is impossible to identify him. Future investigation may 
establish, that he was one with the Krishna of the Bhelsa inscription. 
Of Kokalla I further wrote: “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.” As Vakpati was of the same age with 
Yuvaraja, we may conclude, that it was Bhoja of Malava, Yakpati’s nephew, 
against whom Kokalla, son of Yuvaraja, claims to have been successful. See 
last year’s Journal, p. 
f See the Journal of the American Oriental Society , Yol. VI., pp. 499—537; 
and this Journal for 1861, p. 318. 
X Col. Wilford,— Asiatic Researches t Y ol. IX., p. 108,—claiming the authority 
of a copper-plate grant for what he states, alleges, that Gangeya had the title of 
Vijayakantaka, and that “ he died in a loathsome dungeon.” This seems doubt¬ 
ful. Facts of such a nature would scarcely be spoken of, by an Indian panegy¬ 
rist, of any one related to the magnate he is engaged in belauding. 
§ See the eleventh stanza of the following inscription. 
|| In a literal translation, the twelfth stanza is as follows : “ By whom, Karna , 
was established, on earth, a realm of Brahma, known as Karna vati j the foremost 
