The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.101

v2.c30.s4.101

² His doubts were mainly based on Padmagupta’s silence and his statement: ‘When his Majesty Vakpati was about to ascend to heaven, he placed a seal (*mudrā*) on my song. Sindhurāja, the younger brother of that brother of poets, now breaks it.’ ‘Had the brothers been deadly enemies,’ says he, ‘Padmagupta would certainly have been left in obscurity after his first patron’s death’ (*EI*, Vol. I, p. 230). But I do not see any reason why Sindhurāja, even if he was inimical to Vākpati, should have refused to patronise his brother’s court poet when the latter was willing to write the eulogy of the new king by composing a *Navasāhasāṅka-carita*, in which Vākpati’s victories are passed over in silence while those of Sindhurāja are exaggerated.