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I
I. even from that record we learn the fact, not so much from
its mention of Asoka's respect and favour for " Buddha,
the Dharma, and the Samgha",— so far, the record might
be Jain quite as much as Buddhist, since " Buddha " was
an appellation or epithet of Mahavira as well as of
Gautama,—as from its mention of certain texts which
are identified as Buddhist texts. In the Last Edict,
however, there is absolutely nothing to disclose any
sectarian nature, except the statement at the end, dating
it, somewhat obscurely, 256 years after the death of the
founder of Buddhism.
J. F. FLEET.

THE KELADI RAJAS OF IKKEBI AND BEDNUR

In 1908 was published at Mysore, in the Vira-saiva-
grantha-praka^ika Series, the Vira-saiva-dharma-siromani
of Shadakshari Mantri. This worthy was a minister of
Basavappa Nayaka, the Raja of Bednur, and has prefixed
to his book a metrical pedigree of his patron's family.
As this account in some respects differs from the details
given by Mr. Sewell in his List of Antiquities, Madras,
vol. ii, p. 177, it may be worth while to summarize it here.
Shadakshari mentions two sons of the elder Sankanna,
Rama-raja and Venkata, as having reigned successively ;
Mr. Sewell does not appear to know of the former.
Shadakshari gives the name of Venkata's grandson and
successor as Vira-bhadra; in Mr. Sewell's list he is
Bhadrappa, which is really his father's name. According
to Shadakshari, the younger Sankanna had a son
Siddappa, whose son Sivappa succeeded Vira-bhadra;
in Mr. Sewell's list Sivappa is the brother of Siddappa.
Shadakshari states that Sivappa was succeeded by his
younger brother Venkata, who is omitted in Mr. Sewell's
pedigree. Shadakshari gives the name of Soma-sekhara's
consort as Channamamba, Mr. Sewell as Dodda Chinna-
maji. The son of this pair was Praudha-sri-Basava, who,

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according to Mr. Sewell, was adopted by them; but

Shadakshari explicitly calls him the tanuja of the queen.
The whole pedigree as given by Shadakshari is accordingly
as follows :—
Chaudappa
Sadasiva

Dodda Sankanna Chikka Sankanna

I i "'
| | Siddappa
Rama-raja Venkata |
I ' , i I
Bhadrappa Sivappa Venkata
I I
Vlra-bhadra | |
Bhadra Soma-sekhara
(m. Channamambe)
Praudha-sri-Basava
(adopted son ?)
I I I
Soma-sekhara Vlra-bhadra
(m. Mallambike
Basavappa
(patron of Shadakshaari
The additional information derivable from this list is
of some interest. A considerable amount of historical
literature exists in Mysore which is hardly known in
Europe, and it is much to be desired that a critical scholar
like Mr. Narasimhachar should publish a digest of it in
English or Kannada.
L. D. BARNETT.

NOTES ON THE DYNASTIES OF BENGAL AND NEPAL

I. The chronology and names of the Pala dynasty of
Bengal are still far from being definitely settled.1 A small
fact may be gathered from the colophon of the MS.
Or. 6902 in the British Museum, a beautiful copy of
1
Some additional information from Tibetan sources has been recently
collected by Mahamahopadhyaya Satlschandra Vidyabhushana in
Appendix B of his History of the MedianxU School of Indian Logic.
Reference may also be made to an article by Mr. V. Smith in Ind. Ant.,
1909, 233 ff.

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