[14]. On a stone tablet, which I discovered at Bundi, of the Takshak race, are the names both of Chandrasen and Yasodharman, and though no date is visible, yet that of the latter is fixed by another set of inscriptions, inserted in the first volume of the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society, at S. 1191 or A.D. 1135: the period when the old Hindu monarchies were breaking up, and consequently the arts beginning to decay. [See note [13].]
[15]. [Cunningham (ASR, ii. 266) suspects that this inscription, dated A.D. 691, came from the beautiful pillared shrine described by him and by Fergusson. It cannot now be found, “and, unfortunately, Tod’s account of it, which mixes up Mahādeva with an Avatār of Buddha, does not appear to be entitled to much confidence.”]
[16]. [Perhaps Virādha, who seized Sīta, and was buried alive by Rāma and Lakshmana (Dowson, Class. Dict. 358 f.).]
[17]. The allusion to this affords another instance of the presumption of the priests, who compelled the gods to attend the sacrificial rites, and hence Indra could not visit his consort Indrani.
[18]. [The translation in the text is untrustworthy, and the date is probably A.D. 824 (IA, v. 180 f.; Fergusson, Hist. Ind. Arch. ed. 1910, ii. 132 f.).]
[19]. See Vol. I. p. [290]. [These speculations are now obsolete.]
[20]. See Inscription, Vol. II. p. [915].
[21]. [Dr. F. W. Thomas has kindly traced this word. It is the old nisīdhyā (nisīhiyā), in its modern form nisīdhi or nisidhi, an ornamental Jain tomb. See Epigraphia Indica, ii. 274, with Bühler’s note; Rice, Inscriptions at Sravana Belgola, Archaeological Survey of Mysore, 1889, 35, 40.]
[22]. [A lunar asterism.]
[23]. [About 8 miles S.E. of Gāgraun, and 10 miles N.E. of Jhālrapātan. Cunningham (ASR, ii. 293 f.) thinks that this place may have immediately succeeded Chandrāvati as capital of all the country on the lower course of the Kāli Sind, shortly after the beginning of the thirteenth century.]