20 C. Bendall— history of Nepal and surrounding Kingdoms. [No. i 
apparently connected with that last mentioned. Several of the rulers 
are mentioned in colophons of the present catalogue, and one of 
these must be in all probability identified with the issue of a series 
r ‘ . 
of coins, unpublished as yet and also undated, but apparently belong¬ 
ing to this century. 
The first sovereign mentioned is Prthvlsimhadeva in whose reign 
in [Yikrama] Samvat 1492 (A.D. 1434-5) at Campalcaranyanagara was 
copied MS. No. 1508 (v) at p. 61. 
His successor was probably, as we shall presently see, S'aktisimha. 
Of the next king, Madana or Madanasimhadeva, we have three 
mentions in these MSS. At p. Sl.j-gwe find him mentioned as reigning 
in Yikrama-Samvat 1511 (A.D. 1453-4) at Campakaranyanagara. His 
epithets are interesting. The first, vipraraja , seems to point to his 
belonging to the same srotriya va?nsa which reigned in (Eastern) Tirhut 
and so does the biruda ending in narayana which all the members of that 
dynasty assumed. The pandit is uncertain about the reading daity- 
anarciyana, but I find from my own notes on the same MS. that 1 read the 
compound thus. I should propose to interpret it like daityanisudana and 
daityari (both epithets of Yisnu) by reference to the Yaisnava faith of 
the king. This would accord well with the legend of a set of coins 
first identified by Dr. Hoey with this same region and at present in the 
British Museum. This legend is STOW and on the re¬ 
verse ’qttranw h The lettering of the coins may well belong 
to the 15t.h century and I am glad to have the authority of my friend 
Mr. Rapson, to whom I am indebted for my knowledge of the coins, that 
. their general style and workmanship is referable to the same period. 
At p. 29 (MS. 1001 «l) we find another MS. of the same reign 
written at Goraksapura in L.S. 339 (1457 A.D.) It is interesting to 
note that the' era used is that of Laksmana Sena, as it confirms the 
accuracy of the Yikrama date, and also forms the first instance hitherto 
noted of the employment of the era west of the Gandak, i.e., beyond 
the limits of Bengal. Lastly, Madana appears-as a royal author giving 
his name to the Madana-ratnapradipa (p. 223). This work is said in the 
colophon to have been composed ( viracita ) by the ‘king Madanasimha¬ 
deva, who was the son of king S'aktisimha [see above], adorned with 
many birucjas. 1 At the beginning of the text, however, the work is only 
said to be ‘ promulgated ( prahas'yate ) by Madana ’ and at the end we are 
, told that he got the work done ( karita :—doubtless a common case 
with Indian royal authors !) by one Yisvanatha living at ‘ Kasi-tirtha, 1 
<■ probably Benares. t 
1 Does the prefix S'ri imply the abovementionccl town of Catnpakarariya, rather* 
than the mere region so-called ? 
