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Mayūrākṣaka, a minister of king Viśvavarman. He is men-
tioned in an inscription dated 424 A.D.; cf. CII, vol. 3, p. 74, and
EI, vol. 5, appendix, p. 2, no. 2. The inscription, which belongs
to the Gupta period, records that he built a temple of Vişnu, and
also a temple of the divine Mothers.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Mayūravarman, a name applied to three kings belonging to the
Kādambas of Hãngal, who flourished in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and perhaps much earlier; cf. IA, 4. 203; 6. 23; 10. 249,
253-254; EI, 5. 259; 6. 82-83; 7, appendix, p. 37, no. 210; JBRAS,
vol. 9, p. 233-234, 317, 325; and vol. 12, p. 302, 304-305, 307;
Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. I, p. 432; Lewis Rice,
Mysore Inscriptions, p. 53, 59, and introd., p. 37-38, Bangalore,
1879; Duff, Chronology, p. 117, 146, 292.
Mayūraśarman, a Kadamba king, earlier than the sixth cen-
tury A.D.-perhaps identical with one of the Mayuravarmans;
cf. EI, vol. 8, p. 28-31, especially footnote 6 on p. 28; and vol. 7,
appendix, p. 105, no. 603, and footnotes.
Mayurapāda Thera, the well-known Sinhalese writer, who
flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century and wrote
the Pajavaliya and the Yogärnava; cf. IA, 35. 166; JRAS, new
series, vol. 26, p. 555, and vol. 28, p. 215; Orientalische Biblio-
graphie, vol. 18, no. 3653, and vol. 19, no. 3663; Wickremasinghe,
Catalogue of Sinhalese Printed Books in the Library of the
British Museum, p. 125-126, London, 1901; Wickremasinghe,
Catalogue of Sinhalese MSS in the British Museum, p. 31 and
188, London, 1900; W. Geiger, Litteratur und Sprache der
Singhalesen, in Bühler's Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie,
p. 5 and 8, Strassburg, 1901.
Mayūrapanta or Moropant (i. e. Mayura Pandit) the well-
known Marathi writer of the eighteenth century, author of the
Kekāvalī, Āryamuktamala, etc. He has been discussed above,
p. 63.
Mayūravaha, author of the Kalpakärikäsära, a work dealing
with Vedic subjects. A manuscript of this work is recorded by
Kävyatirtha and Shastri, in their Catalogue of Printed Books and
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Mayūrākṣaka, a minister of king Viśvavarman. He is men-
tioned in an inscription dated 424 A.D.; cf. CII, vol. 3, p. 74, and
EI, vol. 5, appendix, p. 2, no. 2. The inscription, which belongs
to the Gupta period, records that he built a temple of Vişnu, and
also a temple of the divine Mothers.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Mayūravarman, a name applied to three kings belonging to the
Kādambas of Hãngal, who flourished in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and perhaps much earlier; cf. IA, 4. 203; 6. 23; 10. 249,
253-254; EI, 5. 259; 6. 82-83; 7, appendix, p. 37, no. 210; JBRAS,
vol. 9, p. 233-234, 317, 325; and vol. 12, p. 302, 304-305, 307;
Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. I, p. 432; Lewis Rice,
Mysore Inscriptions, p. 53, 59, and introd., p. 37-38, Bangalore,
1879; Duff, Chronology, p. 117, 146, 292.
Mayūraśarman, a Kadamba king, earlier than the sixth cen-
tury A.D.-perhaps identical with one of the Mayuravarmans;
cf. EI, vol. 8, p. 28-31, especially footnote 6 on p. 28; and vol. 7,
appendix, p. 105, no. 603, and footnotes.
Mayurapāda Thera, the well-known Sinhalese writer, who
flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century and wrote
the Pajavaliya and the Yogärnava; cf. IA, 35. 166; JRAS, new
series, vol. 26, p. 555, and vol. 28, p. 215; Orientalische Biblio-
graphie, vol. 18, no. 3653, and vol. 19, no. 3663; Wickremasinghe,
Catalogue of Sinhalese Printed Books in the Library of the
British Museum, p. 125-126, London, 1901; Wickremasinghe,
Catalogue of Sinhalese MSS in the British Museum, p. 31 and
188, London, 1900; W. Geiger, Litteratur und Sprache der
Singhalesen, in Bühler's Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie,
p. 5 and 8, Strassburg, 1901.
Mayūrapanta or Moropant (i. e. Mayura Pandit) the well-
known Marathi writer of the eighteenth century, author of the
Kekāvalī, Āryamuktamala, etc. He has been discussed above,
p. 63.
Mayūravaha, author of the Kalpakärikäsära, a work dealing
with Vedic subjects. A manuscript of this work is recorded by
Kävyatirtha and Shastri, in their Catalogue of Printed Books and
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