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A few coins too are known bearing the name of Jaya Varmma Deva. 
In the Mau-Chhatarpur inscription he is described under the same 
name as the son of [Sallakshana] Varmma, and is praised in the usual 
fashion. 
This inscription further informs us that his younger uterine brother 
was named Sallakshana Varmma. The words are “ ( verse 11) Jaya Varm¬ 
ma Deva etc., ( verse 12). The fortunate Sallakshana Varmma was the 
uterine and younger brother of this lord of the earth ; afterwards the prince 
Prithvi Varmma, equal to the task, sustained the burden of the hereditary 
government.” 
Verse 13 praises Prithvi Varmma for his piety, and verse 11 tells us 
that ‘‘from him was born Madana Varmma, the protector of the earth,” 
whose praises are then detailed. 
The inscription seems to have been erected in the reign of Madana 
Varmma. 
The above words indicate that Sallakshana Varmma the younger was 
not a ruling prince ; and indeed he cannot have been, for there is no room 
for two Sallakshanas in the roll of sovereigns. The younger Sallakshana 
is mentioned very much in the same way as Pratapa Varmma, the younger 
brother of Madana Varmma Deva, is mentioned in Maisey’s No. II in¬ 
scription. 
That document in verse 10 describes Jaya Varmma as “ devoted to the 
worship of Narayana,” and in verse 11 it is recorded that “ being wearied 
“ of government, the king made it over to # # # Varmma* and proceeded 
“ to wash away his sins in the divine river # # ( verse 12). They departed 
“ their lives, and obtained all their desires in the next world ( verse 13). 
“ After him Madana Varmma etc.” 
In the Augasi copper-plate, dated S. 1190 = 1133 A. D., the order of 
succession is given as Kirtti Varmma, Prithvi Varmma, Madana Varmma. 
As both this document and the Mau-Chhatarpur inscription agree in inter¬ 
posing only the name of Prithvi Varmma between Madana Varmma and in 
the one case Jaya Varmma, and in the other case Kirtti Varmma, it neces¬ 
sarily follows that the name missing in Maisey’s No. II, is that of Prithvi 
Varmma, and that Jaya Varmma and Kirtti Varmma II were one and the 
same person, the grandson of Kirtti Varmma I.* 
/This argument shows that Dr. Kajendralala Mitra cannot be right in 
identifying the Kirtti Varmma of the Augasi plate with Sallakshana. 
Jaya Varmma’s and Prithvi Varmma’s reigns must both have been 
short, because Kirtti Varmma I was reigning in 1097, and Madana Varm¬ 
ma in 1131 A. D. 
* “ The numerous instances in which the grandson takes his grandfather’s name, 
“ and which is an interminable source of confusion in Indian chronological enquiries.’’ 
Fergusson’s Indian Architecture, p. 715. 
