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yana,’ 1 which was repeated 2 * on the initiation-ceremony. A revival of 
letters, too, is vouched for by the fact that lengthy Sanskrit inscrip¬ 
tions in prose and verse, which had disappeared for some five centuries 
or more, now re-appear 8 and are continued in,the reign of Jayasthiti’s 
Son. 4 * 
Unlike most Indian princes, Jayasthiti had, according to my con¬ 
jecture, some appreciation of the value of history. When he enters 
on the scene there is a slight change in the style of the present chronicle. 
Nevvari words become much more frequent. It seems to me as though 
the chronicle V 1 had been finished off by a partisan of the king. In 
the case of the Vamsavali preserved by Wright, traces of manipulation 
seem to me still clearer. After a rather jejune account of his (alleged) 
predecessors this chronicle bursts into sudden eloquence of detail on 
the doings of Jayasthiti. There seems no reason to doubt the accuracy 
of these particulars, though as Dr. Wright points out in his note 
(p. 183) there is a medley of inaccurate and accurate 6 dates (p. 187). 
The king’s literary proclivities are even exemplified by a specimen 
of his composition {ibid.) 
So far so good. Where one seems to see the traces of deliberate 
falsification is in the total omission of the real kings 6 of Nepal im¬ 
mediately preceding and following the invasion of Harisimhadeva, and 
the insertion of a string of ancestors for Jayasthiti with impossible 
reigns and dates. These are tabulated in the Historical Introduction 
to my Cambridge Catalogue, p. xv. There is no agreement in the lists 
of ancestors, except that all seem to show a tradition current at least in 
the XVIIth century 7 A.D. that the family of Jayasthiti was descended 
from Harisimha by the male line, though it should be observed that 
the inscription there cited ignores Jayasthiti and his immediate ances¬ 
tors and goes, by a considerable mandukapluti from Jayasthiti’s grand¬ 
son Yaksamalla back to ‘ Harayat’-simha. Even more suggestive of 
what I regard as the correct facts is the form of Inscription No. 16 of 
1 A dramatized Pvamayana appears in the present collection, p. 246. 
2 See note 2 to preceding page. 
8 ‘Journey in Nepal’ pp. 12, 83. Bhagvanlal and Wright mention an inscrip¬ 
tion of the king himself ‘ on a stone near Lalitapattan.’ 
4 Ind. Ant. IX, 183. 
6 This (N.S. 515), it should be observed, is the first date in that Vamsavali that 
is reconcileable with the testimony of MS.-colophons and inscriptions save only 
the memorable date of Harisimha’s invasion (p. 175). 
® Wright’s ‘ Anandamalla’ (pp. 262-299) seems to be a mixture of Anantamalla 
and Jayanandadeva. He totally omits Jayabhima, Jayaraja and Jayarjuna, all> men¬ 
tioned in the present chronicle and confirmed by MSS. 
7 The inscription and the play cited fall within this century. 
