[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c31.410.4 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.410.4 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.410.4 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.410.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.410.4) After dinner he worshipped with flowers the household temples and made dancing girls wave lights before the deities. Worship over, he listened to musical concerts and recitations, sung by \*cāraṇas\*. Having thus passed the day, he then retired to rest.¹ Another interesting work on Kumārapāla's conversion to Jainism is the allegorical drama \*Moha-rāja-parājaya\* of Yaśaḥpāla (\*c.\* 1174-77 A.D.)² which resembles the \*Prabodhacandrodaya\* of Kṛṣṇa Miśra (\*c.\* 1065 A.D.) This work also specially emphasises Kumārapāla's prohibition of the four \*vyasanas\*³ and the abolition of the rule by which the property of those who died heirless was confiscated to the state.⁴ The king, we are told, ordered his \*Daṇḍapāśikas\* to suppress gambling, meat-eating, wine-drinking, butchery, robbery and adultery. But it is interesting to know that \*Veśyā-vyasana\* was not considered to be a very great sin, and was apparently allowed to continue. Gambling, it appears was very common amongst the nobles, princes, and general public. Yaśaḥpāla describes five kinds of gambling, \*viz.\*, (1) \*Amdhiya\*, (2) \*Nālaya\* (3) \*Caturaṅga\*, (4) \*Akṣa\* and (5) \*Varāḍa\*. We are told that amongst habitual gamblers, some have hands, feet, and ears chopped off; of others the eyes are removed; some are without nose and lips, and of some all the limbs are cut off, while others go naked.¹ But apart from these disreputable fellows, there were amongst the habitual gamblers men of the highest families. - [Previous: v2.c31.410.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.410.3) - [Next: v2.c31.410.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.410.5) - [Up: v2.c31.410](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.410) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.410.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.410.4) · Pramāṇa