fabulous the city may have been called after some local chief since it was popularly known as Anahilaváda (Sk. Anahilaváta) that is the place of Anahila. In the Prabandhachintámani Merutunga gives A.D. 746 (S. 802) as the date of the installation of Vanarája, while in his Vichárasreni the same author gives A.D. 765 (S. 821 Vaisakha Sukla 2) as the date of the foundation of the city. The discrepancy may be explained by taking A.D. 746 (S. 802) to refer to the date of Vanarája's getting money enough to fix the site of his capital, and A.D. 765 (S. 821) to refer to the date of his installation in the completed Anahilaváda. Local tradition connects the date A.D. 746 (S. 802) with an image of Ganpati which is said to be as old as the establishment of the city and to bear the date 802. But as the letters of the inscription on the image can be made out by ordinary readers they cannot have been inscribed at nearly so early a date as 802. A.D. 765 (S. 821), the year given in the Vichárasreni, seems the more probable date for the installation as the Prabandhachintámani says that Vanarája got himself installed at Anahilapura when he was about fifty. [510] This accords with the date fixed on other grounds. Placing Vanarája's birth at about A.D. 720 would make him 44 in A.D. 765 (S. 821) the date at which according to the Vichárasreni he was formally installed as sovereign of Anahilaváda. Merutunga in both his works gives the length of Vanarája's life at 109 and of his reign at sixty years. The figure 60 seems to mark the length of his life and not of his reign. So long a reign as sixty years is barely possible for a sovereign who succeeded late in life, and the 109 years of his life can hardly be correct. Taking Vanarája's age at 45 when he was installed in A.D. 765 (S. 821) and allowing fifteen years more to complete the sixty years A.D. 780 (S. 836) would be the closing year of his reign.