History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c22.s1.18

v1.c22.s1.18

We now come to Śivadeva the second a famous king, the father of Jayadeva. He has left three inscriptions. In the first dated S. 119 = A. D. 725 he grants a land for the due worship of Śiveśvara temple founded by himself to a Pāśupatāchārya. In the next dated 143 S. = 749 A. D. he assigns lands for the maintenance of Śivadeva Vihāra for Buddhists. This is characteristic of Nepal kings who like their subjects were worshippers of Hindu deities and Buddhistic gods. Even Hiuen Tsang as above quoted has noted that Buddhist monasteries and Deva temples were close together. In the third inscription H. S. dated 145 or 751 A.D. the Dūtaka or messenger is Yuvaraja Vijayadeva who may be Jayadeva the next king himself as Pandit Bhagvanlal says or his elder brother predeceased. In this inscription we come across a new śloka not yet found in inscriptions charging future rulers against the resumption of the gift, a śloka which may be quoted here for the information of the curious reader: “यथा चाह” (who says is not stated) :