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to find that one of them (Jayabhima) is fully attested by a dated MS. ; 
so that again the new chronicle and newly-discovered MS. 1 confirm 
one another. 
Of the next king, Anantamalla we have now a goodly array of 
dates 2 from MSS. Besides these there is an interesting note in 
Kirkpatrick (p. 264) stating that “ in this prince’s reign and in the 
Newar year 408, or Sumbuth 1344, 8 many Khassias (a western tribe) 
emigrated to Nepal, and settled there; and three years after in the, 
Newar year 411 a considerable number of Tirhoot families also planted 
themselves there.” What this really amounted to may be told in the 
words of the chronicle (f. 266 ; PI. fig. 7) : “ 12 years 3 months after [i.e., 
after the beginning of Atlanta’s reign, or after* the last event mentioned, a 
quarrel between his sons] the Khasiya king Jayatari first entered, 
Sam vat four hundred and eight in the month Pausa. After a slaughter 
of (eight ?) hundred Khasiyas the rest retired [to the jungles ?] and the 
country resumed its ordinary state. On the 13th of Phalguna sudi 
of the same year Jayatari again entered [the country, as if] for a 
friendly purpose, [but] he burned with fire villages and other places. 
He visited (?) the Syemgu-chait[ya], saw the image of Lokesvara 
at Bug[a]ma 4 and visited (?) the Pasupati [shrine]. He got safe back 
to his kingdom. [This happened in] Samvat four hundred and nine. 
Again the [king] of Tirhut entered [Nepal]. This happened [in] 
Samvat four hundred and eleven in the month Magha.” 5 
Kirkpatrick’s “ emigrations ” were thus more or less predatory 
incursions, which as we shall see, became increasingly common later on. 
After the death of Ananta_ a troublous time ensued, and one that 
has been hitherto extremely obscure. In my previous lists I had to 
note at this time: “ Kings uncertain 6 for 60 years.” Though much 
1 See MS. of the Mahalaksmivrata numbered 1320 and noticed at pp 47-8, 123-4 
of the Catalogue. Mr. It. Sewell has kindly verified the date, which works out to 
2nd April, A.D. 1260. 
2 One of these is that given atp. 44 ( ) of the Cat., and there referred to 
Anandamalla. In my tracing however the name Ananta is quite clear. Wright (pp. 
162-65) makes a similar confusion. I have no verification of the date at p. 63 fin, of 
the Cat., which makes Abhayamalla still reigning in N.o. 385. 
8 The double date is interesting, though the Vikrama Samvat is not known 
to have been in use in Nepal at this early time. 
4 On this celebrated image see Foucher ‘ Iconographie ’ p. 100 and his pi. IV. 1 
from a miniature in the Library of the As. Soc. of Bengal, where also the village-name 
js spelt Bugaraa, not ‘ Bungmati ’ as now. 
^ For the text see Plate, fig. 7, lines 1-5. 
8 The main reason of this uncertainty, viz., the varying accounts of Jayasthiti. 
mafia’s ancestors, who never ruled in Nepal proper at all, is suggested below. 
J. i. 2 
