The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s5.272

v1.c17.s5.272

Verses 18-21 praise Svapneśvara as being in war, ‘a divine weapon of the king’s of the Gaṅga lineage,’ a man more powerful than a complete army. We are next told that this person founded a magnificent temple of god (Śiva) Megheśvara. He gave a number of female attendants to the god, laid out a garden near the temple, built a tank near it, and in connection with the tank erected a *maṇḍapa* or open hall. He also provided wells and tanks on roads and in towns, lights in temples, cloisters for the study of the Vedas; and to pious Brahmans he gave *Brahmapura* which was superintended by the Saiva teacher Viṣṇu. By the latter's orders this poem was composed by Udayana. It was written by Candradhavala and incised by *Sūtradhāra* Śivakara.¹