1903.] C. Bendall— History of Nepal and surrounding Kingdoms. 19 
refer the Samvat to the Vikrama era. If this be granted, it must surely 
follow that we may identify the king with Gangeya-deva, Kalacuri of 
Cedi, likewise of lunar lineage, 1 who was thus reigning in A.D. 
1019, or some 11 years before Alberuni 2 mentions him as ruling in 
Dahala, in 1030. Gangeyadeva’s influence has not been hitherto 
traced so far east as Tirhut; but it is noteworthy that his son also, 
Karnadeva, claimed influence in Gauda, 3 still further east. 
Nothing appears to be known of the rulers of Tirhut from this time to 
the 14th century, when theThakur dynasty appeared. A full genealogical 
table of this family was given by Dr. Grierson in Ind. Antiquary XIV» 
p. 196, and this was supplemented by him with further notes in the same 
journal in March J899 (XXVIII, p. 57). Our Catalogue gives (p. 63) 
a date, L.S. 392, 4 for one of the later kings, Kamsanarayana, also called 
Laksminatha, which is the more acceptable as I have elsewhere shown, 5 
that the native chronology for this dynasty is incorrect. In the same 
year, Laksmana Samvat 392, was copied the MS. described at Cat., p. 122> 
which gives a further confirmation of the succession of this dynasty, 
calling it the S'rotriya (brahmanical) vamsa. At p. 65 we meet with 
an interesting confirmation of the correctness of the details given in 
Dr. Grierson’s table, as we there find a MS. by order of a non-reign¬ 
ing prince, viz., Gadadharadeva 6 ( maharajadhirajavara kumara) in L.S. 
372 (A.D. 1490), a date which fits very well with that last mentioned. 
If Ramasimha, the king of Mithila mentioned at p. 23 med,, be 
the same as Ramabhadra, then the composition of S'rikara’s commentary 
on the Amarakosa there described falls at the end of the 15th century. 
The prince Indusena, or Indrasena, the author of the work described 
at p. 265, would seem from his biruda Rupanarayana to have belonged 
to this family. 
I subjoin a short table of this dynasty (Table III). 
Gorakhpur-C(h)amparan. In this region, that is, in the country 
south of Nepal on both sides of the Gandak, there reigned during the 
15th century a dynasty, hitherto not noticed by European writers, but 
1 Ep. Ind. II. 9,11. 
2 India (tr.) I. 202 ; Gangeya is also known from coins, some of them found as 
far north as Gorakhpur ; Rapson, Indian Coins ( Grundriss , II 3B), p. 33; Y. A. 
Smith, J. A. S. B., LXVI. i. 306. 
3 Ind. Ant. XVIII. 217, moreover Karna’s son made one expedition to Campara* 
pya. Ep. Ind. loc.cit. 
4 392 current. The date works out, as Dr. Kielhorn kindly informs me, to 
Wednesday 18th December, 1510. 
6 J. R.A. S. 1898, p. 233. Dr. Eggeling, Cat. I. O., p 875, seems to accept it 
somewhat too readily. 
® Kumara Gadadhara Sirpha in that table. 
