The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c14.191

v1.c14.191

As the three sons of Jayasthiti resided at Bhatgaon, it seems probable that they had not divided the kingdom.¹ But Dharmamalla appears alone in a Patan inscription dated in N. S. 523 (A. D. 1403), which, though dated in his *vijayarājya*, designates him only as a *Yuvarāja*.² Eight years later Jyotirmalla appears alone as the author of a MS. of a work on astrology named *Siddhi-sāra* now preserved in the Cambridge Library, which is dated in 532 (A.D. 1411), and gives him the imperial titles of *Śrī-Rājādvi(jādhi?)rājā-Parameśvara-Paramabhaṭṭāraka*.³ A year later we find an official inscription of this king at the Paśupati temple at Katmandu.⁴ It is incised on a slab of sandstone to the left of the western door inside the court, and records the dedication of a golden *kalaśa* on the temple (*prāsāda*) of Paśupati-bhaṭṭāraka at Dedapaṭṭana-*mahāsthāna* by the *Sūryavaṁśaprabhava*... *Raghuvamśāvatamśa*......*Māneśvarīvara-labdha-prasāda*... .....*Mahārājādhirāja-Parameśvara Paramabhaṭṭāraka-Śrīmat-Śrī-Śrī-Jayajyotimalladeva*. The inscription supplies the following genealogical information: