The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s6.14

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But some years later Karnadeva was taught the lesson of the mutability of fortune by suffering defeats inflicted by several hostile kings, and notably one at the hands of Kīrtivarman Chandēl (1049–1100), who widely extended the dominion of his house. The earliest extant specimens of the Chandēl coinage were struck by this king in imitation of the issues of Gāngēyadeva of Chedi. Kīrtivarman is also memorable in literary history as the patron of the curious allegorical play entitled the *Prabodha-chandrodaya*, or 'Rise of the Moon of Intellect', which was performed at his court in or about A. D. 1065, and gives in dramatic form a clever exposition of the Vedānta system of philosophy.¹