Indian Antiquary Vol 18

SR No.: 032510
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 454
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[Jun, 1889.
other cases it confirms the corrections which I was Ama who saved the life of the sixth pointed out as necessary in the Addends and Chaulukya prince, Karna. Regarding him it Corrigenda. Two of these various readings are is said that he made a Krity or evil spirit, also important in other respects, as they make it which the Purohita of the king of MAIVA had probable that Bilhana wrote the first copy of his raised, turn against its author. The reason poem in the SArad characters of his native which moved the Malava priest to use his magic country. The Jêsalmir copy reads, v. 7, THE skill is stated to have been, that the territory of (TTTT cho TT II, while the his master was harassed by the king of Gujardt. Ahmadabad MS. has . The latter is with
Here we have again an indication that the reign
of "goodman" Karna, was not as peaceable as out a doubt the correct reading. The error of the
the Duydérayamahdkdoya and the Prabandhas writer of the Jesalmer MS. is most easily explained,
represent it to have been. While these works do if it is assumed that he transcribed from a
not mention any wars, Bilhana's drama, Karnamn. SaradA MS., because in that alphabet and are
dars, which Pandit Durgậprasad has lately disalmost indistinguishable. The same supposition
covered and published in the Kdvyamdld, speaks best explains in vi. 49 the mistake THEAT
of a successful expedition against the Muhamme मानुरूप for जवसमुचितधावनानुरूपा. For in the Sa.
dan rulers of Sindh and their Kabuli allies. Now we rada alphabet there is very little difference be
learn that the hereditary feud between Málve and tween Hand and between # and per. The Gujarat did not sleep during Karna's reign. I majority of the remaining 180 or 190 new readings
will add that a contemporary of Sômesvars makes is made up of mistakes, or is due to the rage of the the same assertion, as a paper to be published in Pandits for altering the old texts, which has caused the Transactions of the Vienna Academy will so much mischief in most classical Sanskpit works. show. It is also interesting to see that in I trust that at some future visit to Ahmadabad | the eleventh century A.D. the Park
the eleventh century A.D. the Purõhitas had Dr. Bhåndárkar's hope of finding the missing to show their skill in the foul rites of the portion of the MS. may be realized.
Atharvavéds, which made their office the object Another very valuable find is Sömēsvara's of much obloquy. In the notes on the exploits second MahAkavya, the Surathóteava, pp. 19-20, of Siddharja, the employer of Ama's son, App. IIL. S, which in its fifteenth canto gives an Kumara, the assertion that the king humbled
coount of the author's ancestors, the Purõhitas of the prince of the Sapadalaksha country, or of the Cbauluk ya kings, and contains various impor. Sakambhari-Sambhar in Rajputans, deserves tant notes on the history of Gujarat. The name attention. Ouriously enough Hêmachandra, of Sörésvara's family was, according to the Sans- Siddhartia's court Pandit and annaliat does kpit text, Gulécha, not Gulêva, as Dr. Bhandarkar speak of this war, nor do the later Prabandhakaras. doubtingly writes on p. 20, and this race be. Only Somêsvara mentions it in the Kirtikaumudi. longed to the Nagara sub-division of the Gujarat and again in the Surathotsava. In spite of HômaBrahmans. Even this note possesses considerable chandra's silence it is perfectly credible, because interest, as it shows that the Nagaras were in the it helps to explain Argoraja's attack on Gujarat, tenth century as influential as they are in the
which occurred immediately after Jayasimha's present day, and that the modern Gulôchas, whose death. It may, however, be doubted whether the name I remember to have met with in Gujarat, can result of the war was as favourable to Gujarat as boast of a prouder pedigree than most of the noble Sömêsvara Asserts. It is more probable that houses of Europe. The first member of the family | Jayasinha tried to extend his sway also to the who attained to the dignity of domestic priestnorth-east, but failed. That would explain Hômato the sovereign of Gujarat was sola, and the king chandra's otherwise inexplicable silenoe regarding who appointed him was Malaraja I., the founder the event. The next name in the list of of the Chaulukya dynasty. These statements too Sômesvara's ancestors, that of Amiga, is chiefly possess a considerable significance. The appoint- interesting because it occurs in the Prabandhaa. ment of a new Purðhita proves that on MOlarija's Merutunga's Prabandhachintamani, p. 205 (Bomb. accession considerable changes in the royal house edition), and the Prabhavakacharita, tell of a hold were made. Such things would not bave squabble of his with Hemachandra. The latter work happened, if the Chaulukya prince had ascended the places the event in the reign of Jayasinha, while throne of Gujarat by the right of succession on Môrutunga, I think with Dr. BbApdarkar, more the extinction of the ChaudA line. But they were correctly assigns it to the time of Kumarapala. only too natural, if Molarija I., as hie land-grant Both works mention that Amiga beld the office of asserte, "conquered the Garjaramandala by the Purůhita. The remarks on Amiga's sons contain strength of his arm." Among Sola's descendants too, something new. First, the statement that