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Ajāyata sutah käntašchandro dugdhodadhe riva
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just as the moon was produced from the milk Ocean.
Putram kritajanānandam sajayantam ajijanat
Vyakta kavitvavaktritvaphalá yasya sarasvati | 10 ||.
Writtikāraiti vyaktain dvitiyah námabibhratah | Súnuh samudabhūt tasmādabhinanda iti Śrutah
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10. He begat a son, who gladdened men's hearts, named Jay a n ta, to whom S a ras v a ti, the giver of poetry and eloquence, be longed manifestly as his own. 11. To him, who openly bore as a second name the title ‘ the scholast,’ was born a son, | 11 ||.
Kāvyavistarasam lhänakhedalasadhiyam prati Tena kādambarisindhol, kathâmâtrain Samu ddhritam || 12 ||. -
“Praise to Saraswati
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1. May the steps of Šauri, accomplished with equal labour, both those which first he made when stepping over the (path of the cow), and those which he made when striding through the three worlds, give you prosperity. 2. Glory to the lovely, pleasingly sweet song
known as Abh in a n d a .
12.
He has extracted from the ocean of the
Kādambari the story only, for the sake of those who are too lazy to undergo the trouble of read ing that extensive poem.” In considering the several items of informa
tion contained in the extracts given above, it will be most convenient to begin with those furnished by the Kálumbarikathására. From this work it appears that A b h in a n da—for
of my father Jay a n ta, the teacher of the
this, and not A b h in a n a da n a, is the form of
worlds,-(to that song) which is full of senti ment and possessed of true ornaments.’ 3. There is nothing more resplendent than good men, who shine through their virtues
the poet's name which occurs in my MSS.— belonged to a family of Gauda or Bengal Brah mans, who claimed descent from the sage B h a -
rad vāja. The sixth ancestor of the poet,
(guya) just as lamps shine through their wicks
Sakti, emigrated to and settled in D a rva -
(guna), since their faults even serve to adorn the aspect of their works (just as lamp-soot serves to adorn the eye). 4. Small qualities even increase, and great ones even decrease, according as they reside in good or bad men, just as the moon increases or decreases according as she reaches the
b his à ra. A b h is a ra, the country of King Ab is s are s, is, according to Lassen,* a province to the south of Kashmir, whilst Dârva lies to the north-west of the same kingdom. General Cunninghamt places Abh is a ra also
white or the black half of the month.
5. There was a Gauda of the family of B h a r a d v a ja , called Sakti, who went to I) a rv fi bhi sã r a and married there.
to the north-west of Kashmir, and the fact that
Abhinanda as well as Kalhana (e. g. Ráj. IV. 711) form a compound of the two names, in dicates that both regions lay close together and probably formed a political unit.
Without en
tering further into the question of their exact
To him was born a son, named Mitra,
geographical position, it will suffice for our
whose appearance was worshipped by those who
purpose to state that D a rv a b h is a r a lay on the frontiers of Kashmir, and formed part of that kingdom down to the reign of Utpala -
6.
had obtained the true knowledge after destroy
ing their sinful desires (just as the rising sun [Mitra] is worshipped by men after they have been awakened at the end of the night). 7.
He obtained a son, learned in the revealed
texts, Sakti svām in by name, who was the minister of M u k tā pid a, a king of the
pi da , the last of the Karkot a kings. Sakti's family must soon have risen to influence in its new country, as his grandson is stated to have been minister to king M uk tā
pi da of the Karkota dynasty. The Naga or
Kark ot-a line.
Karkota family occupied the throne of Kashmir
8. His son was Kaly a n as v ii m in , who, like Yāj ñ a valky a, destroyed the stains of (this) existence by the acquisition of pure Yoga. 9. From that deep-hearted man was born a
from the beginning of the seventh to the end of
son, cºlled Kä n ta, an ornament of the creator,
the ninth century. The first Karkota king was
Dur lab h a v ar d h an a, who reigned thirty six years. His son and successor was Durla b h a ka or Prat ā på ditya, who ruled for 7
- Ind. Alt. III. 1017.
t Anc. Geog., Maps W. and VI.