6 
C. Bendall —History of Nepal and surrounding Kingdoms. [No. 1, 
the tradition of his having founded the era. Thus, if we add together 
the duration of his reign and his five successors down to Lak§mikama- 
deva we get about 135 years. This, again, added to 879-80 brings us 
to the second decade of the eleventh century, when we know from a colo¬ 
phon that Laksmikama had commenced to rule at all events as joint- 
sovereign, becoming sole king later on. 
The earliest king of Nepal mentioned with a date in the Catalogue 
is Bhaskaradeva ; and it is very satisfactory to find that this date already 
noticed by Pandit Haraprasad (J.A.S.B. for 1897, Pfc. I, p. 312) is 
verifiable. Prof. Kielhorn has kindly calculated it for me and it corre¬ 
sponds to 24th September, 1046. The new chronicle duly records this 
king with a rather obscure note 1 * * as to his ‘ repairing his paternal 
crown.’ The other chronicles make him the founder of a new dynasty. 
Of the next king, Baladeva 8 (called in V 1 Balavantadeva), we have 
a dated MS. 8 
Of Harsadeva’s reign we have now two MSS. 4 * A third date 
has been added from the Chronicle, which says of this reign merely : 
TT5TT II Interpreted in 
the light of the two other dates this rather crudely expressed notice 
gives good sense, if we take it to mean that Har§a died in N.S. 219 
current. This fits also quite well with the duration of the next reigns 6 
as given in our Chronicle. The credibility of the dates in this part 
of the chronicle is further enhanced by its mention of the completion 
in 239 (date in words) of a tank by STvadeva, the next sovereign. 
1 See Plate, fig. 3B, line 4, medio Tf ( ? : “ his father’s 
diadem was broken np and he destroyed the golden image (to make a crown);” or 
“ the crown was renewed.” Kirkpatriok (p. 263) records a similar 
tradition for a king reigning some twenty years later. 
8 Name wrongly restored in my previous lists as Baladeva. V* records him 
as the founder of Haripur. Plate, fig. 3 B, last line. 
8 As to Vanadeva the MS. (referred to in the table) of Vamadeva makes my 
identification (Journey, p. 9) more difficult. But the existence of Vanadeva’s 
father, the king ( bhunatha) Yasodeva, seems to be confirmed by the Tib. notices in 
J. Buddh. T.S, Ind., Vol. 1, p. 27, where we learn that a king Anantaklrti was 
ruling in the middle of this century in another region of Nepal (Palpa). Babu 
Sarat Chandra Das has favoured me with the original Tibetan of the passage and 
it is just possible that the name grags-pa-mtlia-yas, which he 
Sanskritizes as Anantaklrti, may be a form of Yasodeva the king of Bal-po, Nepal 
in general (or the Palpa district in Western Nepal?) The chronology at least would 
agree. 
4 See the Table. 
6 The supposition would not fit with the allowance of 21 years to [Sada.] 
S'ivadeva, made by “ G ” in Tab. I, Col. 4, of my ‘ Journey.’ :i 
