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² VIII, 2453; Stein's note on the verse in his Eng. Trans.; also Bühler's *Report in JBRAS*, 1877, p. 51. The poet Maṅkha, the brother of Alaṁkāra, the Supdt. of the great treasury (*bṛhadgañja*) of Jayasiṁha, describes a *sabhā* of scholars in the XXV canto of the *Śrīkaṇṭhacarita*. In this *sabhā* which was held in Alaṅkāra's house, Suhala and Tejakaṇṭha, the ambassadors of the Gāhaḍavāla and Śilāhāra princes respectively, were present (XXV, 102 and 110); see also Stein's note on VIII, 2123 in his Eng. Trans. of the *Rājatarṅgiṇī*.