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streams of Asi and Varaṇā into the waves of the Gangă
and on the banks of Triveni (i. e. Allahabad) which became
truly sacred and pure, on account of its being the place
where Brahmā performed a sacrifice."
The epithet Vikrama-vas'īkrta-Kamarupah applied to
king Lakṣmaṇasena in his Madhainagara copperplate points
to his arms having been carried as far east as Kāmarupa or
Assam,
Thus we find that though none of the epigraphic records
furnish us with any direct or explicit reference to or account of
king Laṣmaṇasena's digvijaya still the account of his invasions
of countries from the coast of the Southern ocean in the south
to Allahabad in the north-west and Kāmarupa in the east
gathered from various records may naturally lead one to the
supposition-which is supported by the description of the
contemporary poet Dhoyi in the Pavanaduta-that he might
have undertaken some sort of a digvijaya as was natural
with all powerful Indian Kings.
In the light of the inscriptional evidence already advanced
it is easy to explain Lakṣmaṇasena's conquest of the kings of
South India as referred to by our poet; for this may only
be a reference to his invasion of Kalinga and the coast of the
Southern Ocean to which mention is made by epigraphic
records. But it is difficult to accept as historical the state-
ment of Dhoyi that the king marched as far as the
Malaya range on his mission of world conquest, in as much
as no record is found to have a clear reference to his conquest
of any territory in that region. It is only probable that
this description of the king's march to the Malaya hills
is due to the poet's love of exaggeration which served him".
the double purpose of eulogising his patron and finding
streams of Asi and Varaṇā into the waves of the Gangă
and on the banks of Triveni (i. e. Allahabad) which became
truly sacred and pure, on account of its being the place
where Brahmā performed a sacrifice."
The epithet Vikrama-vas'īkrta-Kamarupah applied to
king Lakṣmaṇasena in his Madhainagara copperplate points
to his arms having been carried as far east as Kāmarupa or
Assam,
Thus we find that though none of the epigraphic records
furnish us with any direct or explicit reference to or account of
king Laṣmaṇasena's digvijaya still the account of his invasions
of countries from the coast of the Southern ocean in the south
to Allahabad in the north-west and Kāmarupa in the east
gathered from various records may naturally lead one to the
supposition-which is supported by the description of the
contemporary poet Dhoyi in the Pavanaduta-that he might
have undertaken some sort of a digvijaya as was natural
with all powerful Indian Kings.
In the light of the inscriptional evidence already advanced
it is easy to explain Lakṣmaṇasena's conquest of the kings of
South India as referred to by our poet; for this may only
be a reference to his invasion of Kalinga and the coast of the
Southern Ocean to which mention is made by epigraphic
records. But it is difficult to accept as historical the state-
ment of Dhoyi that the king marched as far as the
Malaya range on his mission of world conquest, in as much
as no record is found to have a clear reference to his conquest
of any territory in that region. It is only probable that
this description of the king's march to the Malaya hills
is due to the poet's love of exaggeration which served him".
the double purpose of eulogising his patron and finding