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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt:...its praise. According to it, he was the greatest of kings that ever held sway on earth; the most valiant, the most charitable, and the most virtuous. While describing the hero as a devout follower of Mahadeva, it does not hesitate to make him even superior to that dread manifestation of the divinity, for the one, says it, "destroys all alike, while the other, killed his enemies and cherished his friends." There is, however, very little in the verses devoted to his glorification which may be taken for facts. The time of his reign is not given, nor the name of his caste, nor that of the place where he caused the temple o In the colophon of a MS. of the Gitagovinda found by Dr. Buhler it Kashmir, Jayadeva is described as a contemporary of Lashmana Sena. Sh«i «Uj»r »fm n,f« vnir "twii I Kaviraja Pratishthi to be erected. He is related to have invaded Assam (Kamarupa) and the Coromandel Coast between the Chilka. Lake and Madras (Kalinga), and to have sent a fleet of warboats up the Ganges to conquer the Western kings; but nothing is said of the results of these invasions: the last is, in a manner, acknowledged to have proved a failure; for the only thing noticeable in it, was the stranding of one of the boats on a sand-bank, poetically described as " the ashes on the forehead of S'iva, changed to mud by contact with the water of the Ganges." The genealogy of the king includes three names, those of Ilemanta Sena, Sumanta Sena, and Vira Sena. The last was evidently the founder of the family, for he appears as a descendant of the moon, without any reference to his immediate progenitors. It is unquestionable that the princes named in these several records all belong to the same dynasty, and their genealogical tree ma...